Defensive offer, or have house prices become so expensive?

Since I was apparently missing some information myself (probably read hastily on Thursday or not at all), I am now reading here:

A house, gable roof, solid construction with about 150m², no balcony, one side with a kind of "Friesengiebel"

and probably snagging a hillside plot in the new development area,

Hillside plot and Friesengiebel... can be done, but not a must. I consider the approach wrong! A slab-on-grade house on a slope – this is always warned against here...
And how is the situation with the development area? Neighbors?

I’m losing a bit of overview with all the parallel threads about your moving project.

Me too. That’s why I didn’t even click on this thread, because the topic is already sufficiently covered here in the forum.
Not only confuses with her new house search. Instead of simply creating a collection thread for herself, tiny puzzle pieces are queried, with answers sometimes not fitting the other dilemma. If you, , simply start a "we want to change" thread with an introduction explaining why, where, and what, linking to your currently new topics, it all would make cohesive sense.
We also gave that tip, so one could follow his house search and quickly get a clear picture of what it was about, then give him tips that had already excluded another topic of his (his was the affordable house on an existing property and remodeling options). Thus, one did not have to come up with high numbers or new builds.

You would then have the advantage that everyone is immediately on the same page and doesn’t have to explain anew each time why-new-elsewhere is being searched. It often gets personal anyway, which can simply be ignored and doesn’t have to be written anew.

Also, it irritates me hugely that you apparently don’t even read in the forum. The topic "house construction more expensive than ever" has been rampant here for several weeks and touches almost every topic. The costs of 2500 - 3000€ per sqm almost don’t scare those who are read here frequently anymore.
The topic "hillside plot, absolutely don’t build a slab-on-grade house... and if you do, what to pay attention to?" is also intensively discussed in almost every second floor plan discussion. And how hard it is to get building land at all, feels like it’s mentioned in every fifth thread here...
I mean, before you have to reply to everyone here over and over again, it’s less time-consuming to simply just read. Ultimately, it’s your choice, but I wanted to point out the tip.

And P.S. Your staying power regarding first looking at pictures, then seeing, and then leisurely vacationing there... I’d like to have that. By then, a reasonable plot is typically sold three times over.

My husband's car doesn't go over 120 at all, even with a tailwind.

Two days with a rental car, also available with automatic transmission. One day there, in case family stays nearby, otherwise a hotel, return the next day.
Either during the week with one day off (leave early afternoon after work), or push through the next weekend. You can certainly invest a few hundred euros now if the property is that cheap.

There are regions in Germany where you can't hesitate for two days, or every property is gone...

Or you really start with Plan B first: rent an apartment or a house locally and then build the house once you are on site.

not to offend you, but I think you once wrote in some thread that you have no children... otherwise you wouldn't write something like that....

I have grandchildren...! And with my colleagues and neighbors who have small children, vacations are also talked about.

The property won't run away from us because it is not being advertised.

Oh, I didn't know that now. I'm also just catching up on the last pages... :rolleyes:
But I am also with #92.

Yeah, I'll read more, I see that. I somehow can't get along with the search function here. When I search for a term, I'm always shown tons of topics where the term doesn't even appear in the post, and in general the search somehow has no algorithm that evaluates relevance. For example, when I search for "Holzbalkendecke," I find everything and nothing. But nothing that helps me move forward.

Yeah, I'll read more, I see that.
I somehow can't get along with the search function here. When I search for a term, I always get tons of threads where the term doesn't even appear in the post, and in general the search somehow has no algorithm that evaluates relevance. For example, when I search for "Holzbalkendecke," I find everything and nothing. But nothing that really helps me.

Just go through the "new posts" and orient yourself by the titles. Two pages are definitely okay for you to work through ;)

Yes, the forum has a simple keyword search that is sorted chronologically. Use Google for more complex search queries for this forum and type in a few more words. That works well.