How do you assess this house? How much budget will be necessary?

So, there is a very comparable property in Schönebeck, listed at €169,000. But if you quickly search around the house on Immoscout, the market in your area still seems to be quite okay. For example, the listing 108499983 looked pretty nice at a glance. But of course, it depends on the location and what you are looking for.

There are a few houses in the Lesum area that look very nice and seem reasonably priced (but that is something you have to see regionally). Here around Aachen, prices are significantly higher, and in other parts of the country even more so.

I’m not familiar with that area either. It’s certainly not wrong to look at the price development over the last 5-10 years. The fact is: 1. construction costs rise every year, 2. prices for plots of land rise every year in many areas as well, 3. interest rates are already increasing slightly at the moment and will probably continue to do so. That means the longer you wait, the more expensive it gets. In the end, you usually don’t save anything by waiting for a cheaper plot of land. On the one hand, because you might never find one and 2. because the other prices have also increased in the meantime. In sought-after areas, prices will probably not fall due to higher interest rates or not enough. At least, that’s my assessment. I think it’s absolutely reasonable not to pay every crazy price and to always keep some margin. But it also has to be worthwhile and you have to be able to afford it. Also, it would be wise to have a house planned in detail first to even know what costs you will have. Something like that. Your dream house might not even fit on every plot of land. There’s quite a bit to consider. Such planning and idea development takes a while. Until the house is built, it can take quite a long time. How far along are you with the planning, what are your ideas? How much have you already informed yourselves? As I said, I would make a thread out of the idea development!

So, I was just at the building authority and I'm confused... According to the building authority, the house has a plot of 397 sqm assigned to it. The sold house (or rather the one promised by the others) has almost 900, so the total comes to nearly 1300 sqm. There is also a building plan, which specifies a floor area ratio of 0.4. I contacted the real estate agent and she said she had already been surprised about the size herself. However, she probably doesn't have all the documents yet, and since the owner is the same, there's probably some confusion...

That means, it is actually just one property and not two at all? And it hasn’t even been officially divided before the planned sale? They are quite funny. 397 is still enough for building, especially since there is still grassland around it. But I would talk to the realtor about that. Who knows what’s going on and what might have already been set in motion.

There are already 2 plots, but the seller apparently thought he had almost 2000 sqm there and not a total of almost 1300.

House A has a 900 sqm share and House B 397.

About 250 sqm of House A's plot go around the corner like an L and border House B.

I would inquire whether House A would be willing to sell this piece to House B, as it is anyway an unbuildable area.

That way, House A and House B would have almost 650 sqm each and would not touch each other. Additionally, both would then have an advantage in price. The 149k was set for 1263 sqm.

By the way, it is a sloping plot and the house on it has a basement.

It gets more dubious here from week to week. If I want to sell building land, I simply look into the corresponding geo- or survey data or the land register to see what (and how much) I am actually selling. If the seller does not do it, in my opinion, the real estate agent should have done it or at least initiated it by now.

The agents are always wondering why their profession enjoys so little esteem... when I follow this nonsense here again, even the last "colleague" in this trade should be clear by now why that is. But of course, they still take the nearly 6% commission for the non-performance.

Sorry, but I simply have no words for something like that. I like to quote an acquaintance:
She: "Do you actually enjoy your job?"
He: "Yes, of course!"
She: "Then why don’t you do it properly?"
- Awkward silence -