Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Well, that shouldn’t be a reason to hide, quite the opposite. You’ve surely saved a small six-figure amount in the 6 years. And as you already said, otherwise the home ownership wouldn’t have been possible.

That’s also the danger when you seek advice in this forum. Quickly, 3,000 EUR/m² for the simplest and 3,500 EUR/m² for upscale standards are thrown around. But nobody mentions that these are the prices for turnkey handover.

I gave up pretty quickly on writing down everything I paid for... when you go to the hardware store twice a day and buy “small stuff” for 30, 40 EUR, you get tired of punching that into Excel in the evening.

But the house, laminate on the upper floor, tiles in the kitchen and hallway (I had that done), parquet in the living room, all walls filled, sanded, painted with Sol silicate paint, some walls colorful, kitchen from a friend (kitchen builder), white lacquer design interior doors, 2 full glass doors and new living room furniture from Höffner. Basically everything done by ourselves, with a little help from friends/family. … much more than 300,000 EUR we didn’t pay for it, let’s say 310,000. If I take the additional foundation and the extras from the civil engineering into account, it wasn’t more than 350,000 EUR for 150m².

2,333 EUR/m²

I think it's great not only to see the 150sqm+ new builds, even though this is a houseBUILD forum. There simply isn't a "house-buy-renovate-rebuild-new-build-mishmash forum"...

No. I don't have that. I have long intended to write a construction diary, but well, you know how it is. Besides, this is a forum for new builds, most have (almost) everything done for them, and with a house from 1921 and 88 square meters, you somehow feel a bit out of place ;).

On the contrary, I find that particularly interesting. More of that, please! Recently, there has been far too much roundabout discussion and far too few construction photos. =)

Short question in the morning... If a machine is offered "with operator," the operator's hourly wage is included with the machine, right?

We also switch back and forth cheerfully. It almost takes no effort but saves a lot of money. In my experience, as a regular customer you always end up paying more than new customers, and I absolutely do not accept that.

That is the point I don't understand: New customers cause more work, trouble, and pay less; yet they are "more popular" than existing customers. There must certainly be a good (?) reason for that, which I am not aware of.

Gives a reason. Classic price differentiation. Too many existing customers are willing to pay more for exactly the same thing than new customers.