End terrace house large vs. small / price vs. space. Dilemma.

Based on the floor plan ratio, it should rather be a width of 4.80 (for the small house) - 5.20m (for the large house) including the side walls.
You can also see this quite clearly from the bed in the bedroom, which, with a standard size of 2.00-2.20m, takes up about half of the room width

These are expensive dog houses!

Edit: Building expert was faster

Only exceptionally :D

Rhenish greetings

Hello,

I was just back at the construction site. They are a good 5 meters wide, so nothing with 6 :-(

Those are expensive dog houses!


Only as an exception :D

Rhenish greetings

I know that the older generation sees it that way, if I may say so.
My parents also don't like the "sardine can living."

However, I am in my early 20s and don't have €100,000 in equity to build a decent single-family house ;-)

The houses are located in Maxdorf if that means anything here.
The developer is a Mr. Hermle, maybe someone here knows him?

Best regards

Of course you can describe it that way, although I am only "old on paper" ;-)

It has little to nothing to do with the presence of equity, but much to do with common sense. I admit, of course, that you may not have much experience in this field yet. Think about who – if it should ever come to that – is supposed to buy your gingerbread house for a high price? And also whether it might make more sense to spread the advertised square meters over one floor rather than three?

In the end, when my son was your age, I would always have advised him against a project like the one you are currently dreaming of. Justifiably so, as I learned last Friday; he and his girlfriend got engaged. Both will be 34 in the middle of the year and want children ;-)

Rhenish greetings from the road
Construction expert

With us, it is rather the older generation that built the settlement houses with 80m². Nowadays, the apartments and houses (if you can afford it) are getting bigger and bigger. In your early 20s, you can't have a huge amount of equity, but you have by far more time to repay the loan. Possibly, the income also improves again through advancement in the career ladder. For example, I now earn twice as much as I did 8 years ago in my late 20s.

These are expensive doghouses!

By the way, I do not find the word doghouse very nicely phrased. Especially when you consider that the person is currently trying to realize their dream of life.

In our search for existing properties, we also came across such "towel plots" with terraced houses 120m²-130m² (built 95-97). They were practically thrown behind the back for 130K€. But we didn’t get further than the exterior viewing because neither of us could imagine it. Although we now do not have more square meters of living space either, I find the living quality by far better. But for that, we also paid twice the amount in €. The question is whether living quality is worth that much to someone.

@ Musketeer

I didn’t want to be nice either, but rather get straight to the heart of the matter.

Life dream... in your early 20s?

They are doghouses or sardine cans, if you prefer that, and an awful lot of money is demanded for them. That bothers me, I admit that gladly. And also that a young person – who doesn’t yet know (and can’t know) what fate has in store for them – ties themselves early on to a property, moreover overpriced.

I think I may express the key facts more drastically; I didn’t address the consequences at all ;-)

Rhenish greetings from the road
Construction expert

I already understand what you wanted to achieve with that. However, in my opinion, factual arguments would have been better.