Dear existing property with renovation or new construction

  • Erstellt am 2020-01-02 11:37:20

Asuni

2020-01-06 13:44:23
  • #1


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.
 

Tolentino

2020-01-06 13:52:11
  • #2


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...
 

Tolentino

2020-01-06 14:04:49
  • #3


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

11ant

2020-01-06 14:18:01
  • #4
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).
 

Joedreck

2020-01-06 17:40:50
  • #5
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.
 

Tolentino

2020-01-07 08:03:49
  • #6
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
 

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