Realistic cost estimate: Single-family house with unfavorable development location

Our good fairy wouldn't be able to do much with the current apartment; it is really different from the plan in every respect.

So what? – that is practically almost always the case. Trying to find similarities here would be the most frustrating goal and therefore fundamentally never the purpose of the measure. It is rather pedagogically about the seepage of the Eureka bang.

I looked up what the drinking water development cost us back then. We laid 15k for 65m. However, that was in 2014 before inflation. Today, they count almost double. There is no road, electricity, sewage, or telephone included. So the costs are really going to be interesting.

Got my final bill today. In total, I paid around 15,000 EUR for drinking water, electricity, gas (yeah, yeah ;)), and telecom. For 12 months. At the 2021 offer price. Oh, and 3,500 EUR to the development agency for the sewage system and driveway with lowered curb. And another 1,500 for the connection on my property by the civil engineer... 20,000 EUR for 12 months...

Then let's do a reset and read our warnings regarding the costs. Additional construction costs are completely missing. For €400,000 just for the house you get about 135sqm, basic construction. If you subtract €30,000 additional construction costs from the possible capital, only €370,000 remain for the house, so 125sqm. :(

The €400,000 is based on around 160sqm and not that basic at all. The installed windows and doors are of higher quality than those offered by large general contractors, glazed Creaton roof tiles, lime plaster instead of gypsum plaster, brick veneer... I think that works :)

The "next door" are close family and want to build at the same time to use synergy effects. We have budgeted €80,000 for development costs and the assumed €40,000 are already our share.

We have already talked to the draftsman, otherwise that would be a bit naive... And with the small details you are absolutely right. On the other hand, we also find it okay (and know it from home) that the interior furnishings and the garden grow over the years and not everything has to be newly and expensively bought immediately. We are taking our furniture with us and don’t need anything big and new at first. But I understand what you mean, things will crop up here and there, smoke detectors, outdoor lights, mailbox, who knows what... and then the unknown amount of things that we don’t even know yet that we will need.

Oh right, well hopefully our needs analysis from the beginning was already there for that.

@ That makes you dizzy :eek:

What more is there to say. You won't get far with the 400,000 EUR. But just go ahead, it has really been said often enough.

I got my final bill today. In total, I paid around 15,000 EUR for drinking water, electricity, gas (yeah yeah ;)) and telecom. For 12 months. At the 2021 offer price. Oh, and 3,500 EUR to the development carrier for the wastewater sewer and driveway with lowered curb. And another 1,500 for the connection on my property by the civil engineer...
20,000 EUR for 12 months...

But this statement has little value because it varies everywhere. And you can save a lot of money with your own labor.