Dear existing property with renovation or new construction

You can hardly be serious about the question: ground floor as a chamber suite (with bathroom as a walk-through room!!!); not only the other floors, but actually also the majority of the neighboring rooms are only or at least better accessible from the outside; the house is basically like a motorhome without a passage between the driver's cab and the cabin - simply creepy."

Unfortunately, I see it similarly - the floor plan is really more than suboptimal and to turn it into something reasonably practicable for a single-family house, first of all, not much more than the foundation, the exterior walls, and maybe one or two load-bearing walls (if at all) will remain; and you will need significantly more than 100 K euros, I estimate that even with a change of the existing floor plan + an extension (+ all the other smaller items that come up with an old building project) you will end up with at least 200 K EUR. If that’s enough. Furthermore - I am not very familiar with this - it looks like a corner of the house and the staircase are outside the building boundary (blue lines?). Here I would definitely inquire about the legal situation as far as possible, so you don’t, for example, have to tear down the stairs because they lie outside the building boundary. But as I said, other users can assess that better. For me, this would certainly be a pretty clear / strong negative point on the property if this matter could not be clarified without any doubt, especially if I did not intend to squeeze the house together and build a new one. For such a project, you should generally have a fairly good budget available in order to really create a nice house (regardless of old or new building). For a project where financing can only cover painting and floors, the existing building is simply far too impractical.

Furthermore – I’m not very familiar with this – it looks like a corner of the house and the staircase are outside the development area (blue lines?). Here, I would definitely, as far as possible, also inquire about the legal aspects, so that, for example, you don’t end up having to tear down the staircase because it lies outside the development area.

Yes, that’s what I meant in the previous post too. That the owner apparently has just done things here and there. That’s basically how the whole house looked. The conservatory is not a conservatory but rather better weather protection. The narrow part on the right side of the plan is an extension. They just throw garden waste over the property boundary into the recreational area, where there are only trees and bushes (that was sold to me as a plus point). There is an unregistered groundwater well... All issues that could potentially come back to haunt me in the end.
I think I’m really out at this point. Other sellers also have nice properties...

The demolition won't be that expensive.

What do you estimate the demolition of such a house would cost?

What do you estimate the demolition of such a house would cost?

First of all, not much more than the foundation, the exterior walls, and maybe one or two load-bearing walls (if any at all) will remain of the house, and you will need significantly more money than 100 K euros,

The local daily rates of the demolition contractors are not my area of expertise, and I also do not want to speculate here about the renovation costs in terms of money amounts. I would rather phrase it as: "from my point of view, it would be expected here that the costs of the renovation would exceed those of a new build" (and significantly enough that the location alone will not compensate for that, resulting in a clearly suboptimal outcome).

I am guessing 20k demolition.

Quite simple: you offer in writing 300k euros limited until xx.01.20
With a nice text. For example, due to the obviously unauthorized extensions, the unsuitable layout, etc., etc., we are willing to pay 300k€ for the property.

It probably won't be accepted, but you have nothing to lose.
Sometimes you might also get lucky.

Dear all,

just wanted to keep you updated:
The offer of 360 TEUR was rejected with the comment that there have already been several much higher bids.

Thanks for all the good contributions

Best regards

Tolentino