Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

It should be undisputed that there have been major political mistakes in recent decades that urgently need correction.

The established old parties have failed to bring about a political and social turnaround. Now we are facing an enormous heap of broken pieces. This has nothing to do with the political fringes like AfD or BSW. It is simply the case.

The housing problem with tight housing markets, massive rent increases, explosion of construction costs, and ever-increasing ancillary costs has always been ignored. In addition, there is a significant surge in demand for housing fueled by mass migration.

This is social-political powder keg. Construction, especially of affordable !!! rental apartments, has collapsed just like the construction of single-family homes. The scarcity of building plots for housing has also led to significant price jumps. You can read about that here.

I myself am a landlord, and the demands made by socially weak citizens receiving welfare benefits are sometimes downright cheeky. Just as an example. And even when my 12-year-old daughter comes home from school and simply wants an iPhone 16.

In sum, so many problems have piled up in Germany that they can hardly be solved anymore. Society is far too ossified and above all mentally and morally dehydrated. As far as I’m concerned, people can continue to sugarcoat everything, fill talk shows with politically correct people, and keep playing a perfect world.

No, that is a fact. Anyone who wants to build a house for 700,000 to 800,000 at the age of 30, turnkey and without much equity, can be said to be somewhat detached from reality.

No, if he/she can do it, then it can be assumed that this person has worked extremely hard to get a great job with very good pay.

Just as an example. And even when my 12-year-old daughter comes home from school and just wants an iPhone 16.

And this is supposed to be regulated by the state? What does the state have to do with it? The state can decide which claims are legitimate, not who makes which claims. This also applies to tenants. That is your responsibility. Please don’t become mentally dehydrated at this point.

Society is much too crusty

Your own posts here are exactly the incarnation of crustiness: backwards-looking instead of progressive, emotional instead of rational, false facts instead of correct ones to justify your own emotional state – all from the armchair of a region that only knows most of the problems I experience here in the Ruhr area firsthand from second or third hand. You lament what you yourself stand for.

I inquired here regionally about firewood yesterday. 30 cubic meters of spruce in log form including delivery by truck and crane costs 18 euros per cubic meter. That completely surprised me, as it is super cheap. It hasn't been this cheap for many years.

Next week it will be delivered in 3-meter-long logs.

Last year, prices were still between 40 and 60 euros. I prefer to stock up a bit more, you never know what will come.

If it gets too political, I always like to interrupt with an interjection about the current construction price development: +3.1% in August 2024 compared to the same month last year.

If it gets too political, I like to interrupt with a remark about the current construction price development: +3.1% in August 2024 compared to the same month last year.

That is why the ECB interest rates were also lowered today. Because inflation is so low. Then the increased construction prices can be financed more easily again.