Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Similar situation here. We used architectural services, wasted additional costs for the land purchase, etc.
We are currently also asking ourselves whether all of this still makes sense or whether a cut now, even if it results in a financial loss that would be very annoying, makes more sense before the excavators start rolling and we sell the land again. Sleepless nights are currently more the rule than the exception. All the best to you.

Exactly the same here. As the family said, better an end with horror than horror without end. Of course, we are wasting the costs spent so far, but what if the construction becomes unaffordable during the building phase and we have to finance it expensively and then can hardly pay the monthly installments. It's reassuring to know that you are not alone in this. All the best to you too!

Come on, leave it. Unfortunately, the online world has been hijacked by professional outraged people.

Where did you crawl out from? You don’t know me at all and call me professionally outraged? Congratulations, great show.

: you can just go to the next marketplace and ask 100 passersby if they know the phrase "Arbeit macht frei"? The percentage of those who say: "sure, from Kierkegaard" will probably be about 2%. The percentage of those who say: "yep, from the concentration camps" rather around 80%.

And the reference to whom you are related or who you vote for possibly interests a person affected exactly zero. I actually knew you differently here, but this relativizing of (possibly, but possibly not) naive statements in this direction annoys me a lot, too bad.

But I’ll leave it at that now, otherwise someone else will come around the corner and talk about feigned outrage... nice world.

Exactly the same here. As the family said, better an end with a fright than a fright without end. Of course, we are writing off the costs incurred so far, but what if the construction becomes unaffordable during the building phase and we have to refinance at a high cost and then can barely pay the monthly installment. It's reassuring to know that you are not alone in this. All the best to you too!

Planning the biggest project of your life at a time when you no longer know what will happen in two weeks really isn’t much fun ;-) I believe quite a few people are at that point right now. Unfortunately, it doesn't help you move forward ...

We are planning to have children in the next few years. In my head, this currently swings almost hourly between "what kind of father are you who can’t offer his children a garden to play in and a place to let off steam" and "what kind of father would you be if you can’t buy your children a new bike because you can barely afford the house payment". A dreadful situation.

Is it perhaps now a way for smaller GUs to offer only the labor at a fixed price for X months and agree on a daily rate for materials or simply allow the AGs to take care of the materials themselves...?

Is it now perhaps a way for smaller GUs to offer only the labor service at a fixed price for X months and agree on a daily rate for materials or simply allow the clients to take care of the materials themselves...?

That was/is the plan here. At least a similar model. However, if my roofer tells me that he cannot promise to supply me by the end of the year at all or my window installer tells me that there are currently price increases in the double-digit percentage range every two weeks, it still makes it "unpredictable." The problem is simply that building a house takes several months, sometimes even years, depending. Of course, things can calm down again during that time, at a high level. Okay. But it can also get much worse and take on a new dynamic. Then maybe soon no one will build anything anymore. Or maybe they will. No idea. This uncertainty really messes with your mind right now.

It is simply so bitter when you see that you have planned and saved really well for months or years. Equity at a relatively young age, having saved every single cent yourself, being able to contribute about €125k, not having a top salary but a solid household income of €5k, and then at some point it still isn’t enough. A dream that you had also based your life plan on is gradually bursting. The emotional damage is significantly higher than the financial one.

At the last conversation we got the information that the new contracts will be revised and there will be no fixed price anymore.
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He just said that he can of course put the current prices in for us, but if the heating then costs more in half a year, we will just have to bear the additional costs.

The unpredictability is really a problem. I can understand the general contractors when they no longer want/can offer a fixed price.

I don’t know if any of the forum members work in the construction industry and can or want to refute my assumption. But I consider this approach an attempt to increase the construction company’s profit and am curious how long they will get away with it. As a non-expert, I assume that a construction company, for example, makes you an offer with a profit margin and a certain buffer of course, and as soon as you sign the contract, they buy (and store?) the necessary materials.

I assume that the higher costs for the construction company only arise when you sign the contract and the company only buys the materials weeks or months later, or am I wrong? Or the company sells you something they do not even have and/or notoriously cannot get delivered for months, such as a certain heating system. In my opinion, they should not sell you a house with this particular heating system in that case, but rather a house with a model of a deliverable heating system whose price the company knows.

I could also imagine that construction companies in recent years were in a quite comfortable situation, maybe could order materials arbitrarily late or only shortly before installation and now have certain problems having to plan more precisely.

Or am I wrong and do the companies an injustice?

No matter how it is, I am certainly curious how long they will get away with it; in my opinion, it is not professional.

But when my roofer tells me that he can’t promise to supply me at all by the end of the year or my window manufacturer tells me that currently every two weeks there are price increases in the double-digit percentage range, then it is still "unpredictable".

And why can’t you buy the goods "today" and then have them processed gradually with the progress of the construction? Please excuse me if my question is naive.