House hunting: It can't be that difficult...

Unfortunately, this is only the development contribution. The costs for electricity, telecommunications, and water are additional. (calculated at 12-15k). Regards, Jake

Currently, we have an initial general inquiry with a prefabricated house provider but hardly any hope left...
Regards, Jake

In which area are you searching? For the Hamburg area and surroundings, I can give you a tip via PM.

They really advised us very well, and we also quickly got to our beloved home, although that is really not easy in the Hamburg area at the moment!! :)

Good luck continuing!!

Hello,
For 350T it should be doable. The decisive factor is the square meter area. If each room needs 20m², it will of course be tight. ;)

So we just planned our house ourselves, since the "ready-made floor plans" couldn't fulfill all our wishes either. For the planning, I used Architect 3D Ultimate. The excavators arrive next week.. :)

Planning houses is a lot of fun, especially when it's your own and you've wrestled your way through the software a bit. If you want, I can support you with the program if you'd like to try it out. Costs around 120 Eus, I think.

Regards! K.

Maybe we have to come to terms with the idea. Even though that means more costs again (approximately how much?).

Roughly estimated just under 10% if you let the architect do the complete job, from planning to construction management etc...

But don’t worry, it probably won’t get more expensive anyway... the BTs/GUs etc also charge money for planning etc but it’s more or less hidden in the "total price"

If you build in a region that is rather “cheaper,” which you can guess from the building plot, then the price level with local craftsmen is possibly also lower and a regional architect can build cheaper than a national turnkey provider...

And you won’t have more stress either... if you let the architect do everything, then you only have to approve the offers once a week and decide on the equipment...
I wouldn’t see a big difference except that the architect asks at some points how you want things and the turnkey provider just decides or runs through his program...
Of course, you don’t have a "guaranteed fixed price" but if the architect knows the local craftsmen/conditions and builds there often, then he can estimate it quite well.
I’d rather have the architect tell me without guarantee that it will be about 280k than a "guaranteed" fixed price of 320k ;)

Building into the ground is the most expensive option you can choose. That’s why I asked about the building window at the beginning.

I would quietly disagree there..
It depends crucially on the ground conditions... so get a soil report done!

We were able to build our basement on a natural gravel layer and also excavated some 100m³ of gravel for backfilling, which saved us quite a bit of money... with a slab foundation we would have had to buy a lot of gravel here because at that depth there was only clay soil...

With a proper light well on one side, quite pleasant living spaces can also be created here...

I would plan the home offices in the basement, together with a technical room and a storage room. On the ground floor then living room/dining room/guest WC/kitchen/guest room, in the upper floor then bedroom + 2 children’s rooms + bathroom

If the whole thing is only allowed to be 1 full story, then in my opinion it doesn’t make much sense to want to convert the attic into living space, the house would have to be quite large to still get a decent area under the roof. In that case, it might be better to make the children’s rooms "two-story"... for example, the bed on a mezzanine, which allows you to get more space in these rooms with the same floor area.

I don’t see any big problem there for now....

Good evening,

I’d rather have the architect tell me without guarantee that it will be about 280k, instead of a "guaranteed" fixed price of 320k ;)

;)

I’d like to quietly disagree here..
It largely depends on the ground conditions...

Not only that, but certainly also...

.... you can also create very pleasant living spaces here...

That’s the point. If a basement is used exclusively as a utility cellar, it is the most expensive way to create floor space.

In recent years, we have increasingly sold single-family houses on slabs, and this for an obvious reason; aside from the costs. Houses in earlier years had a basement exclusively for the purpose of storing the harvest from their own garden or allotment garden. In many cases, the classic workbench was also located in the basement.

If you look at basements today, you’ll find the classic "hobby room," which is used only in the first year until the inhabitants realize that their own garden is great for partying and thus the question of tidying up is reduced to a minimum. In another room, you’ll find the house technology including the washing machine and shelves for supplies, and that’s about it. So the basement – except for the HAR/utility room – gradually turns into storage for all those things which the house residents cannot part with. Believe me, I know many such money pits.

But I don’t want to hide the fact that the step from utility to living basement – even partially – requires quite a few more euros of effort. And if this gained living space is not used permanently – e.g. as a study – even more costly euros have literally been sunk into the dirt.

It is on these very grounds that my advice is based, that a basement – more precisely, a pure utility basement – is the most expensive way to sink money.

Rhenish regards

Hello Jake, google my massive house builder. The company is an architect who builds turnkey... with us, the architectural services were included... ok, we chose a standard house, but changed everything inside... of course, they also build custom. However, after our contract, they found out that they have to charge a regional surcharge in the future... you are 130 km away from them... just like us. We are satisfied with the handling so far, there are no complaints to be found on the internet :) With lots of fancy stuff and extras (controlled residential ventilation, underfloor heating, KfW70, roller shutters, etc.) we are at about 200000. Of course, some things are better to clarify in advance, but you can read about that in our construction blog ([link here]). There you will also find out the company. I still have a good feeling about them... asking doesn’t cost anything :)