What is a Bauherrenmodell?
That would be the tied deal from the fairy tale, IF it weren’t for the little word "if" ;-)
with an offer like mine that says fixed price, you can’t just have extra costs added, right?
Yes, "right" is correct ;-) If you want a fixed final price guaranteed without any ifs or buts, "paid as agreed," you basically need a time machine: because this would have to be a real classic property developer offer, which today only exists as an Easter egg jackpot on a full moon, basically like a Blue Mauritius with gold trim and a cream topping. The real classic property developer offer (house is actually finished at signing) practically no longer occurs in the wild because—keyword "Basel"—property development is no longer a "business" in terms of "profit" due to liquidity and yield reasons. When this began to go out of fashion, the chancellor was still called "Birne" (pear). It’s not completely extinct yet, but even with "connections," you have to look for it with a magnifying glass. So stop dreaming, and set aside money for inflation and similar risks in your war chest. With counted-out money, you can no longer build a house today; in a really serious worst case, you can’t downgrade tiles and sockets enough to even then still guarantee it will be enough.