Prefab house - yes or no?

With us, the house costs just under 300k
plus land, additional costs, development, and final road construction.
All in all, we calculate with 500k

Some prefab house providers offer nice houses including land on real estate portals at an apparently great price.
But they usually lack any equipment as well as finishing level. In other words, these are often shell prices or minimum equipment.
If you find a provider who offers turnkey including land at a great price and you don’t have to change a finger on the offer, it would be worth considering.

Otherwise, we found that the prefab house providers would all have been more expensive and, in addition, we would not have had a solid house.

Our house comes 160 with tax turnkey. Plus authorities' costs, costs of connections to gas, water, electricity, telephone plus Sat system plus additional effort for hillside location plus finished garage plus painter plus outdoor facilities plus kitchen plus floor coverings where there are no tiles.... Total will be disciplined 205 to 210.

low energy efficiency

What do you mean by that? Low energy efficiency means corrugated iron.

I assume you are referring to the KfW standards. So it means Energy Saving Ordinance, or does it also have to be KfW 55 or possibly KfW 40?

Then why do prefabricated house providers offer turnkey house construction for 250,000?

That is possible; but first of all, turnkey is not a protected term. The additional building costs are usually excluded from these prices, see for example:

Price for turnkey house from €227,289
Price for shell construction from €172,089
Total living area 134.24 m²
Number of rooms 5

All information according to manufacturer. Prices, unless otherwise stated, from upper edge of cellar ceiling / floor slab.
“Price indication prefabricated house corresponds to the expansion stage “almost finished” without floor coverings and painting work.” (Turnkey)

So compare carefully. Especially since the description of services can differ significantly. So don’t just rely on the colorful brochures but also request the underlying description of services.

Basement

Is that supposed to be a habitable basement? Heated? Etc. There is a wide price range here. But every cubic meter of enclosed space above ground is cheaper to realize than below ground level.

I have already read some topics about some prefabricated house providers like Scanhaus Marlow Marlow, Allkauf, ...

Those are from the lowest price segment. The delivered performance then differs significantly from providers in the mid or upper price segment.

The question you have to ask yourselves is also how much do you want to do yourself? Some are rather shell construction providers and vice versa.

Hello Caspar 2020,

thank you for your answer.
In general, it means for us the less we have to do the better. I know of course that this then is quite cost-intensive.
So something like painting walls or wallpapering and laying floors I could do myself. The house should otherwise have everything. So electricity, all lines laid, insulation and sanitary facilities.

By low energy efficiency I actually only meant that I would have as little energy costs as possible in the future.

Basement -> Mainly to store things e.g. winter tires, etc... and not to live in

What is [Bauleistungsbeschreibung]?

Regards

I notice you have hardly informed yourself about the house construction yet

Bauleistungsbeschreibung ist die BauLeistungsBeschreibung

Regards

All information according to the manufacturer. Prices, unless otherwise stated, are from the top edge of the basement ceiling / floor slab.
By the way, this means to me that the floor slab costs extra (Allkauf Haus sometimes advertises with floor slab included worth €12,000).

Costs for sloping sites we also had as an extra item with many providers.
€20,000 flat rate was still the cheaper approach.

The price I mentioned includes basement (50% residential basement, often estimated with €40-50,000 surcharge compared to the floor slab), pitched roof, clinker brick (as a separate item estimated by several providers at €15,000), dormer, extra basement under carport (€14,000).

External dimensions are 9.21 x 10.21
Originally it was 0.5m less on both sides, which now caused an additional cost of €14,000.

If we reduce our house, it costs almost €100k less and would only have about 120 sqm of living space.

As said, all prefab house providers were more expensive than most solid house providers for us. And I think we were rather dealing with the low-price companies mentioned above.
Also, it puts me off if they advertise a house with a free gift of an iPad and an electric scooter...

To come back to your clear thread topic, I give a clear: No