Purchase existing house, end terrace house built in 1978 - questions/decision aid

What should one pay attention to with prefabricated houses from that period (i.e. built around 1993)?

From the year of construction, little to nothing, which manufacturer is it from?

A Bien-Zenker - will get exact data in the coming days.

because we can't agree on the price.

would you like to explain that in more detail? Did you still bargain? I would be interested, surely other readers as well.

By now, one should be out of the big toxin era.

Yep. How long have you been looking for used properties?

Could you explain that in more detail? Did you gamble any further? I’m curious, surely others reading along are too.

Yep.

How long have you been looking for used properties?

We’ve been actively looking for about 3-4 months now and passively for half a year before that. But the market for “good” things is actually very limited. We basically look at everything in the Munich surrounding area (about 40km in all directions). If we find 1 interesting property per week, that’s a lot. (We have pretty specific ideas about public transport connections). However, many are immediately out after the viewing – whether it’s completely overbuilt gardens or 2-meter-large water stains on the ceiling (“water damage, no thanks here”). New building projects are often these shoebox styles or have completely tiny gardens. Not so easy at all…

There are various reasons why the other house won’t work out; on one hand, the realtor is a bit too pushy for my taste, then a few issues with the communal property plus a fairly high uncertainty factor regarding renovations. We didn’t gamble very high, but today’s property is simply not quite as well connected, a bit smaller – but you can move in there without major changes and it has energy efficiency class A.

There’s no final decision in any direction yet, but we basically feel more comfortable with a house from the 90s than with one built before ’80.

Originally we actually wanted to build ourselves, but the availability of plots in somewhat acceptable locations at somewhat reasonable prices is completely insane.

Maybe as an addition: we started with "built after 2000," in the meantime we have arrived at "built after the year 0." Here, you quickly adjust your wishes to reality...

Maybe as an addition: we started with "built after 2000," in the meantime we have reached "built after year 0." One quickly adjusts one’s wishes to reality here...

That's right! But two or three years isn’t much either.