Everyone here always acts so smart, amazing
Since we all know everything better here: In Wiesbaden/Mainz, 500,000 only gets you a new condominium....[emoji2]People, what do we really know. He says he lives in SH. That could be Norderstedt or Wedel, then it gets expensive. Or also Süderstapel, then it gets very cheap and they throw him the land fully developed for 40/sqm. He says he wants to spend around 200 thousand. For the house. Without additional costs, without land, without connections and garden landscaping, etc. so classically turnkey. Here in SH they all sell that with a base slab without painting and wallpapering, without fitted kitchen. He does not say he cannot spend more. He only asks: Is it worth it—economically, not ideally, not ecologically—to pay the surcharge, say for kfw 55 or even 40? And he wants to know if massive construction or prefab is better. And he says a simple house would be okay, he is not spoiled. I tried to give an answer to his questions, I think, a factual answer. And then he gets confronted with an outrage wave, from never ever over "better rent" over "price-wise impossible" over "You have no choice anyway." And our house has to serve as the example "If you want that, you end up where that one ended up." (Whereas what we have done for ourselves is so normal in our settlement and everyone builds roughly at this level here.) I want to make it clear: I am not saying: whoever blows 500k in Wiesbaden is crazy. That might be the level, and it will not change. Just please accept: it’s different elsewhere. And yes, I stand by it: The kfw standards are incentives to insulate more, use newer technology or even more expensive technology, they are linked with subsidies, but these subsidies are more than eaten up by the price increases from the construction companies, and then economically it makes no sense to me. I am open to counterexamples. I can also say: Ok, I was wrong. I won’t lose face over that. Karsten