Please ask yourselves why you absolutely want to pay dearly for 30 years of fixed interest as an engineer and tenured teacher.
I would also urgently advise checking whether the building savings contract is sensible.
The building savings contracts are also a thorn in my side. In the past, people wanted to save nicely here – but then you end up building faster than expected. The terms are also not the best.
It is a good feeling not to have to worry about financing ever again. If that is not significantly more expensive...
We inquired at Bank 1 for a term of 20 years. The interest rate would only improve to about 1.65%. In my opinion, that is not worth it.
I see the chance of interest rates rising as higher than a further decrease. Everyone looks into their own crystal ball here.
If in 10 years we really have interest rates below 1% for all loans, there is still the special termination right.