I wouldn’t exaggerate the shadow calculation. You can find calculators on the internet where you enter the house height and then see how long the shadow will be, e.g., at 5 p.m. in March. You can then compare that with the length of the property. But that won’t really get you much further, evening sun is a problem on both properties, but during the day in summer you won’t have any problems. You just have to make compromises. Here: regional location and connection are good, but noise from the railway, tight development, and high price. In the countryside, you get a 2000 sqm plot in an exposed isolated location, but without infrastructure (Internet = foreign word) and long travel times to public life/daily needs facilities. We all face and have faced the same question! If it helps you: for us, it became the small, overpriced plot with not optimal north orientation, but with walkable (18 min) accessibility to the city center (45,000 inhabitants). Kindergarten & primary school even each 10 min on foot... Work commute 10 min by bike. You have to weigh that up. Regarding the evening sun, we manage with a rooftop terrace on the garage facing west. Caution: something like that usually prevents the boundary development of a garage, check beforehand!
Yes, I think so too. Above all, the terraced housing is shallower anyway, as it is not quite flat. That could possibly only lead to wrong conclusions. But the probability is certainly high that the house will get some sun. On the one hand, orientation is important, but it shouldn’t always be boiled down only to that. Many people think the ultimate thing is a south-facing terrace. Anyone who has ever had a south-facing balcony/terrace knows that, in my opinion, it is unbearable on the terrace during the summer months (even under an awning or umbrella). Likewise, a southwest orientation is also quite nice if you still get the lower sun in the evening. But even there, we have already experienced in our first rental apartment that you can still easily get a bit sunburned in summer. That admittedly was also because of the balcony on the 5th floor.
But does that automatically mean that you will have too little light in the rooms on the west side through that side? Or does it not matter with larger window areas?
See above. I would also find such a terraced house interesting... have you already looked?
Whether they are terraced houses I don’t know yet. I am more inclined to think of a multi-family house. Since we have an appointment at the municipality early tomorrow, I will find out more about that. Because this plot has already been sold to a developer.
I also don’t think much better land will suddenly fall from the sky if you want to build near your desired location. These two are probably already lucky cases and the next ones after you are already in the queue and eager to go.
You can still have luck or bad luck afterwards. Who knows who moves in next to you in the duplex? We lived in a terraced house surrounded by 5 small children. At that time, the noise of the tram would have been preferable to us.
I think you hit the mark. As already said, it was our desired new development area. And I know that no new area is to be expected in the municipality for the next 6-7 years. Trend is rather longer. Considering that this area has already been in planning since 1980. Above all, we see a nice environment for our daughter through the neighborhood structure and the young families who are supposed to come. Of course, life is only made up of opportunities. There will certainly be more. The question is whether you accept restrictions or want to wait for your personal, egg-laying wool-milk-sow. Many boundary conditions fit here for us, and that is important, isn’t it?