Hello,
after I initially only read one comment here, I now wanted to share my further experiences with you. Maybe it will help someone in the same situation:
Last week we signed the contract with the general contractor, so now the financing should move forward.
On the advice of a friend, we had an appointment with a small brokerage office, which had a good interest rate of 1.62% on our desired amounts. However, this came with a 9-month availability period and no repayment change. We would have had to work with special repayments then.
The previously best offer was from ing. Ing-Diba with 1.76%, brokered by Interhyp.
We were already close to accepting the offer, but I thought I’d ask the house bank again, this time with a comparable offer in hand (previously they wanted to offer an interest rate of 1.84% :-(
And behold, a short phone call from the caseworker to the boss, who said he had to see what could be arranged...
2 days later came the call that, fortunately, they would match the existing offer. However, with the possibility of repayment changes once a year, the option to not call up 10% of the volume free of charge (I then had another €10,000 entered as a precaution) and an availability period of 15 months.
I wouldn’t have thought that the house bank would cooperate that much, I’m definitely positively surprised.
My conclusion from this:
In any case, have many offers prepared (I contacted 4 brokers, 2 insurers, and 1 bank)...