Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

For acquaintances, some of the offers were up to 70% above the architect's estimate. That's really something when you’ve already planned your loan. They then searched forever for affordable offers.

Someone who thinks they can only concentrate on road traffic above a certain speed is fundamentally highly unsuitable to drive a vehicle.

For acquaintances, the bids were in some cases 70% above the architect's estimate. That is really something when you have already planned your loan.

To get back to the original topic of this thread, here for once some good news:

The Süddeutsche currently headlines: "Everything is getting more expensive, only the price of wood is plummeting"

"At the beginning of the pandemic, wood costs exploded and became an early indicator of the wave of price increases. Now they are practically collapsing."

"Currently, the price per cubic meter of wood at the commodity futures exchange is about 230 euros, which corresponds to a decline of around 61 percent compared to March alone. Compared to May 2021, when beams, boards, and planks sometimes reached up to 680 euros per cubic meter, the decrease is almost 66 percent."

"The development is interesting because wood prices were among the first to skyrocket almost uncontrollably after the start of the corona pandemic in spring 2020. At times, even simple squared timber was hardly affordable in building material and DIY markets. The wood market thus proved to be a leading indicator for everything that was yet to come with consumer prices. The rapid rise of the overall inflation rate began only a year later in summer 2021. The question now is whether the fall in prices for chipboards, rafters, and window frames can serve again as something like an early indicator – this time, however, with a different sign. After the ongoing alarming reports from inflation statisticians in recent months, it would at least be a first small ray of hope."

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