Development costs for residents unclear

Hello everyone,

there is one issue that is currently troubling us financially. Not just us, actually the entire neighborhood. Everyone is quite unsettled. It concerns the development contributions for the street in the new housing development.
What we know: that a bill is still coming. What we don't know is when and how much it will be.

The street has actually been finished for some time, but not the compensation areas according to the development plan. The costs are not handled by the municipality but by the district. However, there is no information obtained there except "nobody really knows."

I have attached what I found in the statute regarding how it is calculated, and what is stated in the notary contract.
The mayor once let slip on the audio track "expect 12-13€" (per m²), to the neighbors he apparently said an invoice amount of 2000-3000€ (they have about half as much land as we do).
What is not clear to me/us now: costs are already listed in the notary contract, it states "preliminary stage expansion" and "advance payment amount."
If I calculate this, that’s about 10€/m². What I couldn't get out of the mayor is: does he mean that the street will total 12-13€/m², so we can deduct the 10€ from the notary contract? Or does he mean that there will be another 13€ on top of that? That would be more than double the advance payment, and in relation to the total property price, that would also be a huge amount.

The entire neighborhood (with whom I have spoken) sleeps restlessly at night because these are all young people and most of them don’t have large four-to-five-digit amounts saved up.
Can someone of you properly interpret this legal jargon and tell me how the contribution is calculated? Purely by land square meters, or including the number of floors? (there is a development plan, and it is a purely new development area for single-family/double-family houses).

Are there any average values anywhere for what something like this might cost, such as street construction? Probably not, it’s probably too broad a field? This is nothing special, just a paved street and a simply paved sidewalk. One section of our neighbors even got the short end of the stick because the sidewalk behind us stops. For whatever reason.

The development of a residential area is divided into two stages: preliminary construction and final construction: 1: The preliminary construction includes, for example, construction roads, sewage and stormwater disposal, street lighting, as well as the laying of supply lines by the utility companies. 2: The final construction then includes the completion of the streets, the creation of playgrounds, parking areas, etc.

So there is still something coming up for you there. If it really is only about the final construction of the street, then the costs should be manageable. The majority of the work (subsoil) is already done, only some finishing work and asphalting or paving remains. Luxury paving would of course increase the price significantly. Numerous parking bays etc. as well.

I would set aside about the same amount as for the preliminary construction if I didn’t know what still needs to be done (see above).

P.S. In the end, it is still a gifted plot with the purchase price ;-) Even though all costs always hurt.

The development of a residential area is divided into two phases: preliminary construction and final construction: 1: Preliminary construction includes, for example, construction roads, wastewater and rainwater disposal, street lighting, as well as the laying of utility lines by the utility companies. 2: The final construction then includes the completion of the streets, the establishment of playgrounds, parking spaces, etc.

So there is still something coming your way. If it is really only about the final construction of the street, then the costs should be manageable. Most of the work (subgrade) is already done; only finishing work and asphalting or paving remain. Luxury paving would of course significantly increase the price. Numerous parking bays, etc., as well.

I would set aside about the same amount as for the preliminary construction if I didn’t know what else is still to be done (see above).

P.S. In the end, it is still a gifted piece of land at the purchase price. Even if all costs always hurt.

Thank you very much, that already helps. I know that a few green spaces will probably still be created as compensation. The playground already exists. I don’t expect parking bays or luxury paving to come up here in this small town. I assume the invoice for the final construction only comes when everything is finished? Because if it really only comes when everything is finished, then hopefully we will have saved the money again by then. At the office, one of my neighbors heard “not before mid/end of 24.” Of course, that is just hearsay, but if it really depends on everything being finished, and considering that the project is in public hands, I don’t expect an invoice before then either.

And you are, of course, absolutely right – the building land was very cheap. We only bought in 2022, about 1000 m² of land for roughly 54 thousand euros including notary fees.

At that price, you can really only be congratulated, I would also seriously consider rebuilding from scratch!

With us, you still pay about 350,000 coins for 800 sqm with a house to be demolished, on the outskirts... o_O

At that price, you can really only be congratulated, I would definitely consider rebuilding from scratch!

Here, for 800 sqm with a house that needs to be demolished, you still pay around 350,000 coins, on the outskirts of town... o_O

Yes, the purchase price was certainly a big incentive. But you have to say that the building area had existed for over 10 years; the last plots were sold only last year. You also have to want to live there, it’s really in the middle of nowhere. The last bakery closed at the end of 2022, unfortunately. It was actually pretty good.

The street has actually been finished for quite some time,

Citizens regularly have incorrect ideas about this: a final cobblestone or lamppost maintenance hatch cover is deliberately withheld until the administration sees the desired billing time has come.

Can any of you properly interpret this legalese and tell me how the contribution is calculated? Pure land square meters, or including number of floors?

I interpret the basis of assessment here as the maximum possible square meters according to the floor area ratio. Since equal treatment is basically required, it is advisable to find out about other streets that have been billed recently.