Does the real estate market increasingly force more families to build?

Here, a lot is getting mixed up.

In northern Germany, sloped sites are certainly less common for building plots. In southern Germany, depending on the region, however, this is very often the case. Flat building plots are very popular and scarce.

This fact alone can already cause additional costs of several tens of thousands of euros, even with affordable execution (retaining wall, earthworks, excavation, etc.) and own labor. And the landfills in BW are currently really high-priced regarding the costs for earth excavation that cannot be disposed of or used otherwise.

I still believe that this is only the smaller part of the price disparity between north and south. One should visit the websites of Team massiv Büdelsdorf or Stollhaus Schleswig, look at their typical middle of the road proposals, then you notice what is different here when you compare it with our house images topic. Karsten

I'll give one example: Drywall wooden ceiling: In Germany, you cover it with drywall, putty it a thousand times, sand it, paint it, maybe add fleece. In DK, you take Heraklit Sauerkraut board white, done.

Or bathroom renovation. Here: Knock out ugly tiles, retile and tile, remove tub, put in new tub, at the end 10k gone.
Also possible: "Resurfacing." Paint or foil ugly tiles, refurbish old tub on site, new fixtures, new toilet, done.

You can choose what you want, but in Germany people are used to reaching high up on the shelf and then calling that the minimum standard.

If only it were just the tiles... a standing toilet must necessarily be replaced by a wall-mounted one. A shower tray is no longer possible either; the entire layout of the bathroom must be changed so that the shower and bathtub are two separate units and still somehow fit in. But woe betide if the double washbasin no longer fits.

The discussion is slowly becoming silly. When exactly was the perfect standard reached, when a house had an adequate price?
In the past, we had an outdoor toilet in the yard and no bathroom at all. Plus crooked clay walls with a fireplace instead of a stove. Was that ok? Or should we better go all the way back to the caves of the Stone Age humans?

The problem is less the 2 washbasins instead of just one, but the lack of building plots in the desirable residential areas. For me, that means the attractiveness of the rest of the country must finally increase and politics is called upon here.

The problem is less the two sinks instead of just one, but rather the lack of building plots in desirable residential areas. For me, this means that the attractiveness of the rest of the country must finally increase, and politics is needed here.

No. Half truth. The missing building plots drive the land price. The actual house price is driven, among other things, by the mentioned demands.

No. Half truth. The missing building plots drive the land price. The actual house price is driven, among other things, by the mentioned demands.

If you don’t have enough cash on hand to afford a palace, you either have to scale down or take more risks. But if the neighbor has a bigger house, society is to blame – at the same time, no one dares to take a loan with a term of 37 years and a fixed interest rate for 10 years. If my place is gone in 10 years, I had 10 good years in my palace. And with prices in the commuter belt, I’ll still make a profit in the end. But here in the forum, everyone only wants 15-year full repayment or 45 years fixed interest. That just doesn’t fit with a palace without equity.