Land first or construction project first?

At that time in May/June 2013, I had already bought the house, not the land. Straight away: Normally, one does NOT do such madness at all (it was due to the circumstances at that time). I myself searched for and found the land 3 days after buying the house. The tax office later wanted to construct a connection and impose the real estate transfer tax on both the house and the land. There was a lengthy (6 weeks) communication with the tax office. However, I was able to clearly and very definitively prove that the house purchase (under the contractual condition that I find a plot of land myself) and the land purchase were completely independent of each other. In the proof chain, I had to involve the house company and the land seller, among others. Additionally, further evidence was required. Not easy. But it worked out. Accordingly, I only had to pay the real estate transfer tax for the land. Nevertheless, I still consider it (also in retrospect) a high-stakes game and would do it differently today, not only for one reason (among other things, because you can better plan the subsequent construction progress costs). First: search for and buy the land. Then buy the house. Never: buy the house and land together from one provider (exception in the case of system-built houses, where it does not work differently). With (now) 6.5% tax (at that time for me still 5%), that hits the pocket hard; one can truly do MUCH better with that money. Thorsten

In the worst case, the discount is simply gone.

Nobody has anything to give away! Please consider it from that perspective and do not mourn something afterwards that - in light of closer examination - would actually have been paid for by oneself. Rhenish greetings