Prefabricated house or solid house companies - budget

If I were you, I would also take a look at the basic standard variants of various prefab house providers; some of them are definitely suitable for calculating costs. For example, there is the Gussek Haus myline 110, which I think is perfectly fine for two people; it costs 200,000 euros without the base slab, floors, and doors. I simply claim that with 100,000 you should manage ancillary building costs and a simple kitchen. Your property basically costs almost nothing. Another consideration would be: since it is only designed for the two of you – maybe even a bungalow would suffice? That would make things even simpler.

Ancillary costs for a house – we are currently calculating 500 euros including reserves. Your living area is not supposed to be large anyway; with 500 euros you should definitely manage.

You need to determine your lifestyle and other fixed costs individually. I took the trouble to analyze our bank statements from the entire last year (Excel spreadsheet) and thus came up with a figure X that we spend on average monthly if we do not restrict ourselves. This quickly shows you whether and, if so, by how much the belt would need to be tightened.

our additional housing costs in the new house are almost identical to the previous rental apartment,
just sorted differently,
previously cold rent + additional costs (heating, garbage, caretaker ...) + water + electricity + internet + insurance,
now installment + additional costs property tax + heating + water + electricity + internet + garbage + insurance,
electricity and water are similar, heating consumption is cheaper because more modern,

gas has been eliminated, for connection + basic fee we can heat for 20 years with an air-water heat pump,
Frank

Hi,
well, I haven’t built myself yet, we are still in the planning phase. Our house is supposed to be significantly larger and without DIY work (except for the garden).

But what I can share with you:
Keep a household budget for a few months. You can also do this retrospectively for the past months, you can see your money movements in online banking anyway. Just look at what you honestly needed without deducting anything! So don’t say, yes I bought a car, I’ll deduct that, no, because you will still have to buy a few cars in the next 35 years. See what remains. Only then can you say exactly what you need. The excuse "in the future we can be more frugal" doesn’t count.

But just as much, you don’t have to let anyone tell you that it’s impossible to get by with 1200. There are many people here who consume incredibly much. People didn’t believe us either that we live on 1500 euros after rent.

The neighbors of my parents built a cube. The house width was determined by the dimensions of the concrete ceiling elements. It was supposedly very cheap

... whatever that may mean. So far, I have not seen any precast concrete ceiling elements in "standard sizes," as everything is always custom-made, but you have to have some kind of explanation.

On the topic - and to the original question: At the time, we contacted several providers (general contractors) for a house that was roughly the same in basic design. By that, I mean the fundamental design, number and type of floors/windows/stairs/bathrooms, floor coverings, painting work, roof shape, etc. It involved three solid house builders and one timber house builder, all of whom belong rather to the regional/manageable category and build between 20 and 50 houses a year. Our impression regarding the quality offered, both in consulting and construction, was very similar and basically convincing. In the first offer, the solid houses were separated from the timber house by a substantial sum of a full 100,000 EUR. With a bit of negotiation, this gap could be reduced to about 90,000 EUR, but at that point, it became clear that timber prefabricated houses (in this case as a KfW-55 house) are not just a little but significantly more expensive than their solid counterparts. With more energy-efficient houses, this difference is somewhat relativized but basically remains.

In our specific case, it may have been because we chose a brick facade, which in timber frame construction has to be paid for almost entirely in addition, without the erection of the supporting structure and insulation becoming cheaper as a result, but even if you remove these almost 40,000 EUR from the calculation, there remains a large difference, and even with solid houses, bricks are not free.

Long story short: At least with individually planned houses, I see the price advantage clearly with solid houses. It may look different with real catalog houses.

Best regards

K1300S

... just under 2,000 euros/m² ...

Sorry for shortening your quote like this, but I see the figure mentioned here often.

My question regarding this: gross or net?

Best regards and thanks