TmMike_2
2022-01-12 20:03:53
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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.