Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Back on topic again: are there actually digital helpers that bring cost savings for builders, ensure better planning, etc.?

There is a program that was developed by a builder for builders. I have taken a look, but I am already too far along (building for 6 months) to want to enter everything retrospectively. However, it looked very good at first glance. I believe it was introduced either here or in the Green Forum.

I consider the right to informational self-determination developed by the Federal Constitutional Court to be extremely important in a liberal society. I explicitly do NOT want government agencies to maintain central registers of all my known data and to be able to access them accordingly. It may seem and also be more convenient if one actually wants something. But I do not want to imagine what could happen if the other fundamental principles are no longer taken quite as seriously in our country. Over the past two years, we have seen how some government agencies act in crisis situations. From prime ministers who want to put proportionality aside at times to regulations that were poorly justified or not effective, everything was there. And this was not even an existential crisis. By the way, anyone who disparages people with opposing opinions as worrywarts and progress deniers and ultimately mocks others with !!111!! disqualifies themselves due to a lack of discussion culture.

Since you specifically refer to me: What exactly is your concern? What changes with a central register regarding the data that individual authorities already have anyway? I really want to know. And where do these massive doubts about our state system come from? Just because a few prime ministers acted somewhat awkwardly during the corona period?

I know it's crystal ball gazing, but what do you think? Will construction prices normalize again?

In the short term, I rather don't think so. Not as long as the war is weighing on the markets. Medium to long term, maybe a bit, but not back to the level of a few years ago.

I know it's crystal ball gazing, but what do you think? Will construction prices normalize again

I think so, to some extent. However, not soon enough for it to be relevant for everyone who actually wants to build now (family planning, etc.). By the way, it seems that more existing houses are actually coming onto the market here right now. We have been searching for several months and there were only trickles of new houses on the internet within our search radius... Currently, more are actually added daily. But not really at cheaper prices. I'm still glad if we can hopefully close our purchase at the notary soon.

Will construction prices normalize again

The entire industry is currently discussing this.

A lot of projects are being shelved. Combined with the "high" interest rates, many projects are no longer profitable. Institutional investors are increasingly financing purely with equity and are waiting. Buyers are backing out - despite signed contracts. General contractors offer daily prices. Landowners have to accept losses because projects no longer fly with the high land prices. Construction companies fear short-time work for the second half-year. The whole industry is currently "staggering" a bit.

If construction prices do not come down again, there will be problems everywhere. But why should they do so at the moment? Raw materials are expensive, energy is expensive. Unions demand (and receive) high wage agreements. As long as China's zero-Covid strategy with lockdowns continues, European raw material supply including energy is disturbed and not reorganized, and the war is ongoing, nothing will happen for now. 2022 is lost.

For 2023, it may look different again.