Is buying a house sensible in the current market situation?!

  • Erstellt am 2020-09-23 14:32:32

Alibert87

2020-09-23 15:57:56
  • #1


Thanks for the explanation about the equity! I have that in mind now.
We could also keep accumulating equity, but properties are getting more expensive (quite possibly). It won’t help me if in two years I have €50,000 more equity but the house costs €100,000 more (even though I find that hard to imagine).
 

BobRoss

2020-09-23 20:03:57
  • #2
To broaden horizons regarding what is possible in terms of price increases, a quick look at current purchase prices in the greater Munich area helps. After all, the price increase currently seems, at least in my perception, to be stabilizing/slowing down somewhat at this very high level.
 

Bookstar

2020-09-23 20:11:10
  • #3
So 600 thousand euros really isn’t much money for a house anymore. New construction is probably out of the question anyway, you’re interested in existing properties? That will be difficult, because as you said, most of them are already being sold under the table. But ownership is more popular than ever. So good luck!!
 

Joedreck

2020-09-23 20:13:01
  • #4
Do you live well? Offer the landlord to buy, if it fits. Then the heirs won’t have real estate hanging over them.
 

Hausbautraum20

2020-09-23 20:51:50
  • #5
So we are just starting our house construction project, which will end up with a total volume of at least 720k. Our net income is 5000€ (plus Christmas bonus...), so quite comparable. Our equity is higher than yours at 200k. And our installment will be 1800€ + special repayment. The amount of the installment personally doesn’t cause us any worries at all, but you can only decide that for yourselves. What causes us the biggest worries is that the costs during construction are not exactly predictable and the financing amount is already high in relation to our net income and doesn’t leave much room for maneuver. We would have preferred an existing house, but for 720k we would have gotten a semi-detached house from 1985 with 130 living space and 250 sqm plot, and so we have now simply bravely decided on the riskier path. The good argument regarding upcoming children also has to be looked at individually. For us, daycare fees would still be fairly affordable, grandmothers are nearby, there is Bavarian childcare allowance and child supplement as a civil servant. Also, thanks to good working hours, we could both soon work more again. Salary increases are also foreseeable and in 10 years the 1800€ installment will be much easier to bear. But the topic of a house must probably already be very important to you at such an amount for the whole thing to make sense. For us, owning a house is very important and we are willing to give up a lot for it. Of course, not everyone sees it that way.
 

Alibert87

2020-09-24 09:10:38
  • #6
Thank you for the honest words. The last sentence is probably the crux, I would guess. We like ownership, also the idea of having our own garden. But I don’t see the house as a status symbol or something particularly important ("I don’t have to have a house"). And then taking on such an amount is really tough. That’s why moving into a terraced house on the outskirts is not even conceivable; if already so much money, then in our desired location.
 

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