Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

I always find it interesting that the prices on the portals are referred to. At least in my area, the properties listed there are the ones that do not sell under the table. There are usually reasons for that!

Other numbers are unfortunately hard to obtain, as are other properties. If you don't buy in your current place of residence, there is no possibility of under-the-table real estate either. I cannot confirm that they are not selling. The agents sometimes had viewings every 20 minutes, and I am sure that most went well above the asking price in the bidding process.

By the way, the plan is risky in that politics will eventually be forced to require existing buildings to undergo renovation. Or they have to give up their CO₂ targets. But comprehensive protection of existing buildings and large savings at the same time will not be possible.

As soon as there is political compulsion, corresponding support will/would have to be provided... But let’s just wait and see... More and more heat pumps and electric cars are being requested... If the lights regularly go out because electricity doesn’t just come from the socket, you can very quickly have combustion engines again... VW has already realized this... And if the government thinks of prescribing an electric car to me, the additional costs compared to combustion engines must also be supported accordingly... Apart from that, I believe there are very few vehicles under 100k allowed to tow more than just a bike rack, right? In the city I don’t care... But not in the countryside with garden/forest/hunting etc...

As soon as political compulsion is behind it, it will/must be correspondingly promoted...

That will not work like that and most likely will not happen. Normally, the state can only spend money that it has previously collected through taxes. Broad promotion of building renovation or electric cars is then simply left hand - right hand money. The last decade was abnormal and debt was cheap. So recently, everything and everyone was subsidized. Since the central bank can create money out of nothing but not goods and services, this merely drove up prices in the subsidized sectors. Inflation and the interest rate turnaround are currently putting an end to the topic; furthermore, the state will need all resources for the foreseeable future to compensate for the imbalance in social security systems—especially pensions—that arise from demographics. The baby boomers are almost all still in the workforce, and the federal budget is already a pass-through heater for social security. I cannot understand how anyone could think that the state will then compensate for every restriction arising from what was promised before the election. No diesel drivers were compensated for no longer being allowed to drive into certain cities. The same applied a few years earlier with environmental zones; that was the owner's problem. And many property owners will also face a rude awakening. Rent-free is simply not cost-free. And if necessary, the state just plays through intermediaries and pushes EU regulations forward, which it itself helped to decide. Quite simple.

Imbalance in social security - especially pensions

Include civil servants - align pensions with pension levels. A big step towards improvement.

And if necessary, the state just plays it through the boards and pushes EU guidelines that it has co-decided. Quite simple

A lot still has to happen.

What were previously inquiries for new kitchens are now mostly kitchen inquiries for existing properties, replacement kitchens.

What is really striking, however, are the few inquiries and especially few at this time of year. In the last 10 years, there were up to 300 inquiries around the holidays/New Year/January (2013) within about 6 weeks, it was always the time with the most inquiries in the year. That is over, very few are planning a new kitchen, there are too few new buildings and kitchens have become expensive.