Is it possible to reduce the size of the house after the financing is completed?

  • Erstellt am 2022-01-12 07:50:58

TmMike_2

2022-01-12 20:03:53
  • #1
I can share from my experience. Originally, I wanted to build smaller than 200m2, rather around 175m2. Of course, because of the costs. For me, there is no other reason to build smaller, unless you are building your retirement home to downsize. Three months later, I calculated that just furnishing, incidental construction costs, driveway, garden, fence, and garage amount to 40% of the house price. These incidental costs are mostly fixed and not changeable. Every year, house connections, development costs, etc., become more expensive. This ratio was decisive. My wife and I then decided to build as much as was allowed at most. I don't miss a single square meter of living space and would do it the same way again. That we would build again in 18 months, of course, I did not know five years ago. I just want to doubt that your saving for 20m2 amounts to 60k. My surcharge for 60m2 was about 45k. But it's hard to determine because we built most of it ourselves.
 

Schwabe23

2022-01-12 22:34:10
  • #2
Due to your comments, I looked at it more closely again. I calculate a reduction of a little more than 28m2 over the 3 floors if we move the house 1.3m inward. If the 60,000 are correct, I come to 2140 €/m2. That is not completely unreasonable. However, I will clarify this in detail with the architect. Clearly, with such matters, they first approach it mathematically, that is, linearly.
 

guckuck2

2022-01-13 06:31:29
  • #3
Exactly, it is about calculation based on flat rates in the current planning status after all.

But of course, that's all nonsense, although one didn't even know the saved area (until now). It's just a bit of masonry, it can never become significantly cheaper...

Such comments can only come from [GU-Bauherren].
 

K1300S

2022-01-13 06:45:47
  • #4

Yes, it is, for the reasons that have now been mentioned several times.
 

driver55

2022-01-13 07:40:12
  • #5


And now it’s suddenly 30% more, 1.3 m instead of 1 m. :rolleyes:
Or is this supposed to be a different calculation?
I suspect/fear the entire project is based on estimates or rough calculations…
 

WilderSueden

2022-01-13 08:43:02
  • #6

Please do a complete calculation. In which district are you building? How big was the house originally planned to be, and what was it supposed to cost? And then accordingly how big it is now. So far, we only have fragmentary information and the loan value, but not the overall picture.
 

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