Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Another addendum: I quickly found a statistic showing the development between 2005 and 2017. I have to go to work now, but I will continue googling in the evening.

hm in the 90s, the construction industry was noticeably in a pretty bad state. The prices must have been accordingly.

Meaningless "example" for dedicated craftsmen....
To make it clear to you: Please keep your "knowledge" to yourself and stop annoying us here with your embarrassing outpourings.

Then please don’t respond to it anymore! At least that’s starting to annoy me too.

Apart from that, the attempt to discredit my post by ridiculing it is futile.

With all due respect, everyone should in turn take a look at themselves and refrain from waving the red flag at every opportunity or discrediting other forum members and their posts. I do not refer to you personally only, but have observed for weeks how quickly and willingly the collective club is swung as soon as one person starts hitting.

Stay factual and either respect other opinions/statements or put the respective person(s) on the ignore list if it bothers you so much to read their posts.

The constant "personal attacks" and very regular statements like "don't feed the troll" are at least just as out of place and certainly do not contribute to a better forum atmosphere! Those who preach tolerance and freedom of expression should also live by it instead of silencing dissenters at every opportunity.

€180,000 for a building plot with 750 sqm in Dresden Hellerau is not really expensive to feel ripped off.
Just deal with the facts. Or are you trying to tell me that prices in Dresden are comparable to those in Stuttgart, Nuremberg, or Hanover?

I spontaneously looked up the offer on Immowelt.

Well, I come from Dresden and know the housing and real estate market here. Getting 750 sqm in Hellerau for €180k is utopian. There can only be a catch. Prices for Dresden city in this size usually range between €350-450k. There have also always been prices of €500-750k in the urban area. Hellerau is rather on the outskirts of Dresden.

Spontaneously found, there is for example a building plot in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen for €800,000 and 400 sqm of area.
Which corresponds to a price per sqm of €2000, compared to Dresden with only €240 per sqm.

But to be fair, one must also say that Stuttgart Zuffenhausen is a northern peripheral district and about 10 km from the city center.

In the public sector or among civil servants, incomes should be similar.

How the quality of life in Stuttgart (3060 inhabitants per km²) with double the population density of Dresden could be higher is not clear to me.

Anyway, in Dresden you can still build at all. In Stuttgart, not anymore.

My statement regarding quality of life referred to the location of Hellerau: built directly on the highway, separated only by a low noise barrier. The airport is practically within sight at a distance of 1 km. So in addition to the noise from the highway, you constantly have the noise from starting and landing airplanes. And I do consider that a significant reduction in quality of life. If you look for a somewhat quieter area, like Radebeul adjacent to Dresden, you will see that here too prices of between €44 and €500 per sqm are being called for. There are also equally more expensive plots here, just as there are cheaper ones in Stuttgart than the one you mentioned.

The available income per capita is €20,000 in Dresden and €25,000 in Stuttgart, thus about 1/4 higher.

Long story short: comparatively, it is cheaper to build in Dresden than in Stuttgart, but still expensive =)

Today, it is basically no longer possible to build a detached single-family house in Stuttgart and the surrounding area. Certainly, there are exceptions, but basically it is not possible. There are building plots for 1 - 2 million.

Politically, this is also not desired in Baden Württemberg.

In Dresden or Leipzig, you can still fulfill your wish for a single-family house. Maybe not in the city center, but still in the nearby surroundings.

The development is not only leading to extreme price increases here in our country. In the USA, it is much worse than here. There, an annual income of 60,000 USD now counts as the poverty-threatened lower class. Ten years ago, that was a well-off middle class.

There is a video about food inflation in the USA. Very enlightening. A kilo of flour for 8 USD, a small piece of cheese over 10 USD. Eggs for 6 $, a small bread - about the size of a hand - 5$ etc. Many can no longer afford that. Meat is almost unaffordable. Restaurant prices are prohibitively expensive. 100 dollars are nothing there.

A normal weekly grocery shopping now costs 5-600 dollars there.

Or as a farmer said to me yesterday. Rough times are coming for us. Certainly not an opinion based on scientific data, but rather a case of farmer’s cunning.