Plot of land - Can you still build today without a developer?

The conditions in Leipzig are still different from what one knows from the West. I grew up in the Stuttgart metropolitan area. There, Stuttgart already began 30 km away, just behind Bietigheim, now behind Sachsenheim. Here, (still) immediately beyond the Leipzig town sign begins the wilderness. If I ride my bike for 15 minutes, not really living centrally, I am in the city center; 15 minutes in the other direction by car and I am in the village. So a real village, surrounded by fields, at most with a few small new housing developments on its edges. At the beginning of the 2000s, the square meter prices there were still two-digit. This has changed; some quite distant but conveniently located municipalities have built quite large new housing developments, and the building plots there, if there are any left at all, are not really cheap. The cheap ones are still available off the beaten track, infill plots in villages that, at least to outsiders, seem dull, between brown coal pits and half-filled lakes, where one certainly does not want to place their 160 sqm city villa between the DDR roughcast houses, even if after a thirty-minute car ride one is in Leipzig.

The conditions in Leipzig are still different from what you know from the West. I grew up in the Stuttgart metropolitan area. There, Stuttgart already started behind Bietigheim, now behind Sachsenheim, 30 km away. Here, immediately beyond the Leipzig town sign, the countryside begins (still). If I ride my bike for 15 minutes, not really living centrally, I’m in the inner city; 15 minutes in the other direction by car, I’m in the village. A real village, surrounded by fields, at most with a few small new housing developments on its edges. At the beginning of the 2000s, the square meter prices there were two-digit. That has changed; some fairly distant but conveniently located municipalities have built quite large new housing estates, and the building plots there, if any are still free at all, are not really cheap. The cheap ones are still out of the way, building gaps in, at least to outsiders, boring villages, between brown coal pits and half-filled lakes, where you really wouldn’t want to place your 160 sqm city villa between the GDR scraped plaster houses, even if you are in Leipzig after a thirty-minute drive.

but that’s not Leipzig!

I want to go to Leipzig!

In the east, yes, because the farmers there have so far held on to their land firmly. In all other directions, it’s not like that. And in the east, many fields still lie within the city limits because all the suburbs were incorporated at some point – and since the land there has not yet been sold and built on, there is partly a village-like charm, but within Leipzig and it’s by no means cheap there.

and it is by no means cheap there

With the necessary money, there are indeed plots of land; you can get some around the corner from us for 500€/m². But the average earner in Leipzig cannot afford that, unless they then put a 100m² Town & Country bungalow on it.

Two semi-detached houses are currently being completed in the neighboring village: the village or municipality was never mentioned in the advertisement. Hamburg-Süd for a village that only belongs to the commuter belt and is 20 km away....

Out of pure curiosity: Do you mean the one in "Hamburg"-Helmstorf?

Out of pure curiosity: Do you mean the one in "Hamburg"-Helmstorf?

Or something like that... yes. In any case, not the right place where they stand. Do you have anything to do with the houses?