Rough cost estimate for a single-family house

Hello construction expert, thank you for the response. I have already read some competent messages from you here, so the question is: Do you still consider a landing in the "lower" range to be realistic with good equipment (i.e. ~ 600,000-610,000 euros without architect)?

Hello Wallyfan, thanks for your reply. :) Hannover is not that far from our future location. Who are you building with, architect, developer, or contractor? Do you have an individual price for the solid double garage, and are you building it "all in one hand" or did you outsource it separately? How big will it be, width by depth? The price of 200,000 EUR including the double garage is almost sensational. Is that a finished design? Is everything really included – painting work, tiles, electric shutters? And what kind of home technology (gas, geothermal, ...) did you choose? Best regards!

We are building with a developer who includes almost everything from the design to the turnkey handover. Except, of course, the land and utility connections as well as the incidental purchase costs and the small items described in the specification. But we arrange all of that directly with the craftsmen without having to pay the developer’s markup.

The double garage is a prefabricated garage measuring 6 x 7 m.

We have manual shutters; however, all windows also have fly screens. Electric shutters would probably have cost an additional 3,000–5,000 EUR, but we decided against them.

Tiles are included for the bathrooms; the other rooms will get PVC planks costing about 7,000 EUR from a smaller local floor layer nearby. The hallway and kitchen would have been included in the base price but we removed them. My girlfriend doesn’t like tiles.

We are doing the painting work (wallpapering and ceiling painting) ourselves or with helpers, as well as painting the eaves and windboards, which we will definitely do ourselves. We will probably also do the landscaping and the terrace ourselves, as it is fun and saves costs.

The heating is underfloor heating operated by a heat pump with a surface collector field in the garden.

With the amount you calculated, you can almost afford a luxury building in the most desirable locations around Hannover.

In which region do you want to build?

Hello emer, yes, for our first thought experiment we were at +/-220m² above-ground living/usable space, of which 30m² would be utility room or technical area:

This is currently how big our living room is, and it is already not small

Hello wallyfan,
we will be building in southern Lower Saxony (Göttingen), the construction area is currently being planned and will go on sale at the beginning of next year.

I'm currently sitting in the living room with 32m², and yes, it's too small for us. We live in a really big house, but the living room was kept rather small in favor of other rooms. When you have 2 small children like us who always play wherever you are, then that's not much space: if you put in a large dining table and then 2 sofas, there's hardly any free space left for playing. We previously had about 10m² more in the old house, and we do miss that.

Mechanical roller shutters are definitely not an option for us in the future: we currently have - let me count - 16 roller shutters. First of all, it’s just annoying to go up and down every morning and evening, and secondly, the things are so loud that I only raise them every morning after my little one has finished sleeping, otherwise she wakes up. Friends of ours have electric roller shutters in their house, and they quietly hum up and down at the programmed time - so I would really like to have those too :)

If the (flashy-:cool:) build becomes cheaper than currently feared, we will be happy, but until then we follow the advice of the experts and calculate generously for the prices or then smaller areas if necessary. Better no surprises later.

In any case, have a lot of fun building your house!

Everyone needs the space they think they need :). I We will probably be fine with 140 sqm, others need more. Friends of ours have 3 children with 130 sqm and they are satisfied, so everyone has to decide for themselves. In old age, 200 sqm would be too big for me, so we are building smaller now. However, our budget is only half as big. So we had to make compromises.

Hello Clairiana,

I think you should definitely get a non-binding offer. Preferably from the general contractor of your friends. You should not mention the currently stated budget for the time being. You can set the 500,000 of your friends as a guideline. You can always increase it later.

The construction costs per sqm naturally depend on the level of equipment. For example, you can choose tiles for 30 euros but also for 150 euros. Depending on individual wishes, it may also be that you end up below 2,000 per sqm in price.

Including the utility room, we will have 172 sqm. We are building with geothermal energy and a decentralized ventilation system with heat recovery. Including the costs for a 10 m³ cistern, connection costs, a small budget for the garden, as well as the material for self-performed work (laying laminate and painting), our plan is just under 300,000 + land. The electrical work might still increase the price. Thus, our price per sqm is about 1,750 euros (but including the additional services, which are often not included).