Cost estimate for a single-family house near Heidelberg

The figures from are more than accurate when you look at individual trade contracting here in the region. Especially if you want to pay an architect according to the fee regulations and do not use any own work, it will not stay below €420k. Painting work alone consumes €6k with us. A plastic lift-and-slide door, for example 3m, costs €4k.

Cheaper and more towards standard it will be with a general contractor, possibly something.

Phew, I'm afraid it might be tight too :-/

I don't know how the prices are in Heidelberg, but I guess it's probably not cheaper than here in the Eifel.

We are also building 1.5 stories with a basement (although a living basement; according to the general contractor we could have saved only 15k with a utility basement instead), gable roof, 144 sqm (+ basement), medium equipment, also no KfW 55 or 40.

The prices look as follows for us:

House costs (excl. roof interior finishing/drywall, interior doors, floor coverings, painting/wallpapering, incl. fireplace system and cistern (together 8,500€))
344,000€

The trades we took out resulted in the following "credits": drywall 10k, interior doors 5k, tiles/top coverings 12k, painting and wallpapering 12k.

In addition, we have 2 prefabricated single garages for 12k, gravel driveway 5k, other exterior work (garden, fence...), terrace, electrical planning, possibly colored windows, possibly decentralized ventilation (8-11k)...

Then there are also incidental building costs...

I can't believe it. What kind of world do you live in? Surely you can build a house for just over 400 on an available plot, even in Heidelberg, that you can actually live in. Then maybe the extractor hood isn’t from Bora, the stove not from Gaggenau, the doors just open and close without lift-slide-press, the front door has a doorbell instead of facial recognition and fingerprint, and the tiles are from Harry’s Tile Market instead of the Italdesignkeramicostudio Enzo Ferrari. Is everyone here going crazy now? Karsten

I can't believe it. In what world do you live? Surely you can build a house for just over 400k if you have a plot of land, even in Heidelberg, that you can actually live in. Then maybe the extractor hood isn’t from Bora, the stove not from Gaganau, the doors just open and close without lift-slide-press, the front door has a doorbell instead of face recognition and fingerprint, and the tiles are from Harry’s Tile Market instead of from the Italdesignkeramicostudio Enzo Ferrari. Is everyone here losing it now? Karsten

I'm afraid you live in a different (more affordable) world somehow, if I sometimes read your posts. And that’s not meant in a bad way! It’s a pity it’s not like that everywhere. We are actually building without any frills! But if we had a level plot instead of a slope and built without a basement, we’d be about 80k cheaper too.

But the OP has a flat plot, wants a utility basement, which he can still skip and replace with a garden shed if money gets tight, wants a lift door, which can be even cheaper if necessary, wants a double garage, where there is also saving potential, but has 420 thousand. Man, that's enough for a decent house, no slope, no living basement. In the world I live in. Here an hour of labor costs about 50. A bag of cement 4.50, a bag of screed concrete 4, windows, cables, light switches, bricks, etc. probably aren't cheaper here than in Heidelberg, but maybe it's cheaper because in SH we possibly build a bit more modestly, believe that 12 sqm is big enough for a children’s room, that a staircase made of hornbeam can clearly be semi-matte, a driveway gravelled instead of paved, etc. K.

I can’t believe it. What world are you living in? Surely, if you have a plot of land for just over 400,000, you can build a house, even in Heidelberg, that you can actually live in. Then maybe the extractor hood isn’t from Bora, the stove isn’t from Gaganau, the doors just open and close without lift-slide-press mechanisms, the front door has a bell instead of facial recognition and fingerprint, and the tiles are from Harry’s Tile Market instead of the Italdesignkeramicostudio Enzo Ferrari. Is everyone going nuts here now? Karsten

Unfortunately not. I can confirm the numbers exactly as follows:

- 160k€ shell construction with drainage, chimney, L-bricks
- 53k€ heating, controlled residential ventilation, and 4k€ plumbing
- Roof 32k€ including carport
- Doors + windows 35k€
- Screed 5k€
- Plaster 35k€
- Stairs 7k€
- Outdoor facilities 20k€
- Painting work 6k€
- Photovoltaics 12k€
- Tiles 25k€
- 3k€ other flooring

So 139 sqm with basement without kitchen, without fancy bathrooms, without venetian blinds, without tiled rain shower, without KNX, without living basement, etc.

All prices exclude energy consultant, structural engineer, architect, soil survey, etc.

These are the current prices.