Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Yesterday I read a post like that. I don’t even remember where it was, I think in Die Welt.

A couple, he an industrial engineer, she a lawyer, with a net income of 8,400 euros. Even they can no longer afford a house in the Stuttgart area. Not even a townhouse. There’s nothing reasonable left to rent either. And if there is, it’s also very expensive.

The installment for a townhouse would currently be over 4,000 euros

I read exactly the opposite in Die Welt on 12.10.23, namely:

Falling prices – The dream of homeownership is becoming achievable again!

Townhouses are available here in the Stuttgart area from €420,000 to buy, to rent from €1,500 cold (of course the upper limit is open, the Emmerich Villa in the upscale district of Sindelfingen was listed, I believe, for 3.6 million) That is of course not a semi-elevated location / Stuttgart city area and also not with a significant garden or new-build standard or above-average living space. Without equity, nothing works either, but if you specifically save equity and adjust your expectations to your financial possibilities, it is possible to buy a house here with such an above-average income. And renting always works with the income, it’s nonsense that you can’t find anything here.

Yes, these sob stories also regularly appear on ntv. Recently, a single mother with 2 children, just under 5,000 net, property, 3 vacations a year and casually paid off 5,000 in lump sums in 2022... complained that you can’t afford anything anymore...

People have lost all sense of proportion and also any feeling for how good it is to have 5, 6, 7,000 EUR net.

And in times of tight budgets, the owners of existing properties are now being squeezed. And really hard. We are in decline.

Now it doesn't help anymore to vote for the AfD or a Wagenknecht. The child has already fallen into the well

How exactly are the owners of existing properties being "squeezed"?
The increased energy costs affect everyone, as do changes in property tax.
And the fact that the energy transition is finally being tackled in the building sector is long overdue; for the past decades, we have lived at the expense of the environment and on the backs of poor regions in prosperity, that is now changing or hitting us in the face.

What would the AfD or Sahra W. actually do differently or even better?
I don't see a decline, only acute problems that were already warned about 20 years ago, but were ignored by the majority and therefore not attractive for parties, because speaking the uncomfortable truth costs votes.

I assume that the stripping of existing properties is about the obligation to renovate upon purchase and the increasingly stringent regulations in this regard. So far, new construction has predominantly been the focus when it comes to a building being energy efficient.

I assume that the stripping of existing properties is about the obligation to renovate upon acquisition and the tightening regulations in this regard. Until now, new construction has mostly been the focus when it came to making a building energy-efficient.

With a good location no problem - the 20k for demolition are factored in instead of having no land at all

the mentioned couple can very well, but just does not want to. Huge difference.

Whereas not wanting in this case is probably the more reasonable solution. If you are not dependent on staying in a perverse housing market, with the budget of a 3-room apartment in an old building, a detached house is often quickly possible. Crazy prices always involve two parties: one who demands them and one who pays them.