Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Not necessarily. Here we are also talking about kitchens. You walk into a kitchen studio and are immediately asked about your budget. Let’s say 20k. The salesperson wants to make as much profit as possible and offers you a kitchen that is "less valuable" because they know you want to spend the 20k anyway.

Nonsense. That’s not how it works, at least not in reputable kitchen studios. In the end, IT software calculates the price and then the salesperson decides how much discount to give. Usually 30%. If you negotiate well, it’s 40%. But that 10% difference is just a few thousand euros.

Not necessarily. Here we would also be dealing with kitchens. You enter a kitchen studio and are immediately asked about your budget. Let's say 20k. The salesperson wants to make as much profit as possible and offers you a kitchen that is "less valuable" because they know you want to spend the 20k anyway.

How does the salesperson know that I want to spend more anyway? Pretty stupid tactic, because I would then go somewhere else where the kitchens look less shitty and are still within budget.

If my architect hasn’t figured out after 3 months that “we can’t get more credit” and still “offers” us the aluminum windows more expensively than necessary, he doesn’t seem to be the brightest candle on the cake either.

- Electrical installation - 15k
- Interior plaster - lime + fine plaster - 20k (we will do the painting ourselves)
- Exterior plaster - approx. 20k
- Photovoltaic system 12.2 kWp - 16k

Those are already very low prices. Some of them were no longer realistic even in 2015. What are you supposed to get for 15k for an electrical installation?

Are you building the house somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the East, where the fox says goodnight to the hare? Or sockets from the Polish market?

These are already very low prices. In some cases, they were no longer realistic back in 2015. What are you supposed to get for 15k for an electrical installation?

Are you building the house somewhere in the East in the middle of nowhere, where the fox says good night to the hare? Or sockets from the Polish market?

I actually have to confirm that, very few of these prices even come close to matching ours.

So someone has to explain this to me now.

Kati2022:
- Electrical installation - 15k
- Interior plaster - lime + fine plaster - 20k (we will paint ourselves)
- Exterior plaster - approx. 20k

These 3 items already correspond to 1/3 of my house price. In that respect, I see Kati’s values as very high. And I live in a fully functional house…. ‍how that works …

These 3 items already correspond to 1/3 of my house price.

165 K house price for an entire house? 50 - 60 sqm?