Home financing about 500K - Can I afford it?

180sqm for 230K? In which year did you build?

180sqm for 230K? In which year did you build?

And then bungalow...

When we built in 2015, we also "only" paid about 195K for a 140 sqm bungalow. Special requests included, among other things, interior walls made of calcium silicate blocks instead of drywall, roof as studio trusses instead of dry floor trusses, central controlled residential ventilation, home automation, etc. So 5 years ago it was still possible

At least as crucial as the "When?" is the "Where?" when it comes to construction prices.

At least as crucial as the "When?" is the "Where?" when it comes to construction prices.

For the house alone without the land, it shouldn't make too much of a difference, right?
So the same general contractor at different locations.

For the bare house without the property, it shouldn’t make much of a difference, right?
So the same general contractor at different locations.

I got offers back then from the next bigger city and a few from further out in the countryside. So not across federal states yet, just regional. Even there, the offers for the shell construction from the city GCs were about €25k higher than in the countryside.