Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Here is once again an example from practice that I have increasingly observed:

I am in the group "beim blauen f" from Town & Country and have followed the posts intensively over the last two years.
We earn quite well and have kept the finances very disciplined during the house construction. In other words: we mostly stuck to the standard and chose very nice tiles for ourselves without extra charge. Additionally, we did all the work on floors and walls ourselves.

We always had to rub our eyes in astonishment when it was constantly said in the posts and comments, "which special equipment tiles did you take? The normal ones are just not acceptable!!", "Who else didn’t have enough in the 10k sample buffer?" "Yes, 20k just for the bathroom and another 8k for electrical!!"

And the nice thing about blauen f is that you can see quite well from the profiles where the people come from.

Some also openly said that they went into additional financing because of the tiles from Italy.

Current situation for a few weeks now:
The topic of excessive special equipment and upgrades during construction is practically dead. No one asks about that anymore. Everyone is now looking to manage with the financing they locked in at a favorable rate.

So the effects are visible very quickly during the construction phase

Here is once again an example from practice that I have increasingly observed:

I am in the group "beim blauen f" from Town & Country and have followed the posts intensively over the last two years.
We earn quite well and have kept the finances very disciplined during the house construction. In other words: we mostly stuck to the standard and chose very nice tiles for ourselves without extra charge. Additionally, we did all the work on floors and walls ourselves.

We always had to rub our eyes in astonishment when it was constantly said in the posts and comments, "which special equipment tiles did you take? The normal ones are just not acceptable!!", "Who else didn’t have enough in the 10k sample buffer?" "Yes, 20k just for the bathroom and another 8k for electrical!!"

And the nice thing about blauen f is that you can see quite well from the profiles where the people come from.

Some also openly said that they went into additional financing because of the tiles from Italy.

Current situation for a few weeks now:
The topic of excessive special equipment and upgrades during construction is practically dead. No one asks about that anymore. Everyone is now looking to manage with the financing they locked in at a favorable rate.

So the effects are visible very quickly during the construction phase

The plots cost partly 400-500k

In the southern "Speckgürtel" of Stuttgart, still 30 minutes by car from the city center, it is already like that... Prices of 1000€/m² are common.

Funny, I’m in 3 Heinz von Heiden forums on the blue F and it’s the same there. Although I notice that hardly anyone builds with a basement anymore. And many are building somewhere far out or in the cheap, economically weaker federal states in the north/northeast.

Here in the area (Munich metropolitan area), there are places where you are not even allowed to apply for a building plot if you have more than 150k in equity. And preferably you should have at least three children and be active in five clubs. But the plots sometimes cost 400-500k. Fortunately, we didn't have this equity rule here. But I'm really curious if they will now relax these allocation guidelines, because otherwise it only really works if both parents work full-time (with a very good income) and the children spend the whole day in daycare.