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For families with small children, this is certainly not a top location. And not for many other people either. I wouldn't want to live there. No matter how cheap the land is.

I know a family that lives in an industrial area. My daughter was invited to a birthday party there, and at first, I thought I had gotten the address wrong because the area is known as an industrial zone.

The family lives there with their 3 (now teenage) children; around them are smaller commercial units and also several houses that have integrated a business. So, apparently, quite a few have come up with that idea. Above all, the location itself is quite good in terms of infrastructure. You really have everything right nearby.

What I noticed the few times I drove past were a painting company that has a really large imposing town villa standing there, and next door a small bungalow-like building as an office, a business for painting supplies, a small insurance agency (I think, or maybe it was something to do with rentals or so), a provider of fences, and a somewhat larger administrative building, which is at the end of the area. None of the commercial units affect the family's living; no one is on their case or anything. Everything is very spacious.

In any case, an industrial area doesn't always have to mean containers.

The family itself also has a pretty large plot (I estimate around 4,000 sqm), the house stands on it, and as a business, he has integrated a sort of caretaker service/all kinds of services or something like that.

And when driving through the area, they are not the only families living there; that also surprised me a lot back then.

I doubt that one can convincingly establish a subordination of the EFH to the commercial enterprise. And then having metalworkers and beverage wholesalers as neighbors—well, at least you don't need an alarm clock. , thanks for the report from the field. But it seems some people have found each other there, and the authorities probably turn a blind eye to both sides. Alternatively, as a major investor, one could buy the entire area and then only sell or even lease the other plots to "quiet" businesses.

And then having metalworkers and beverage wholesalers as neighbors – well, at least you don’t need an alarm clock.

I agree with you on that. For this reason, I have declined building plots in "mixed-use areas" several times; we have previously lived in a mixed-use area, with a scaffolder opposite and a metal workshop three houses down. (Our new house is located in a purely residential area.) From my point of view, a mixed-use area can have more disadvantages overall than an industrial area.

Oh yes, photovoltaics are not a commercial business.

No, that is agriculture ;-)

Nee, das ist Landwirtschaft ;-)

If the district offices cooperated, that would be the opportunity for building in the outer area.

If you want to build a house just to gain an increase in value, then you are certainly doing something wrong.

I built my house to feel comfortable in it and to realize my personal wishes. A possible increase in value is relatively unimportant to me. I don’t want to sell it anyway. And if the value were to drop by half tomorrow, I wouldn’t care. I live in it. Either way.

Therefore, location only matters in real estate speculation. For a self-used property, my own standards come first. Not those of a bank or a developer.

10 years ago, you could buy houses in the countryside from us for very cheap. Nobody wanted them. Today they’re worth a fortune and not even listed anymore. Times just change. Right!