Costs for building a house in the year 2024

  • Erstellt am 2024-04-13 13:34:38

nordanney

2024-06-09 10:02:21
  • #1
That is the question. In the early 90s, every person in Germany still had a living space of about 35sqm, in 2021 it was almost 50sqm. People were happy at both times. But that is what I mean by expectations. No, 130sqm is objectively not very small. That is almost 40sqm more than an average apartment today.
 

ypg

2024-06-09 10:33:38
  • #2
The mistake many make: building a third floor in addition because the slope makes it necessary. Why not just two stories and the house with a living basement as a full floor plus a second full floor, in other words, one side as a bungalow, the other as a two-story house (simply put).
 

WayneTrain

2024-06-09 22:19:15
  • #3


Well, the slope does not make it necessary, it is rather an option. With 1.5 floors, the area requirement increases with the same living space. That leaves little garden/terrace.
But the slope is not enough for a whole floor; upwards you are limited.

And of course, the requirements are not comparable to those of earlier times. And certainly the average apartment is smaller. However, the average represents a cross-section of the population in which a large part are singles without children and retirees living in big cities.
But yes, it can certainly be smaller, and the basement will also be reconsidered once the designs are ready.
 

MachsSelbst

2024-06-09 23:34:08
  • #4


Yes it is. Without an attic as storage space, 130 sqm for a two-story house is relatively small.
The extra 40 sqm for an average apartment are partly eaten up by:
Lack of a basement (in an apartment 6-10 sqm), utility room 6-8 sqm, hallway on ground and upper floor including stairs (which you don’t need twice in the apartment, and space for the stairs not twice either, makes another 5-6 sqm).

I definitely agree that there is a big sense of entitlement today. But whoever calls 130 sqm for a single-family house relatively small definitely does not fall below that.
 

nordanney

2024-06-10 08:40:45
  • #5
So do budget providers like Town & Country almost only build houses that are too small? The average house there is well below 130 sqm – and these houses enjoy good sales.
 

MiKe2024

2024-06-11 14:34:16
  • #6
We deliberately built with a gable roof so that later (if necessary and when there is money left over again) we have the potential to convert the attic. Then you can easily create an additional 30-50 sqm.

In addition, we currently have a lot of storage space here.

Other roof types would have meant 20,000 EUR or more for our house.

We built relatively simply. About 11x9 m footprint, without any frills.

No basement, carport instead of a garage (although we would have very much liked to have had a garage in hindsight).
 

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