Situation of the construction industry in the Rhein Main sector

Hello everyone,

after we now have a final financing commitment and will have our property notarized on Tuesday, I am a bit uncertain about the statements of my architect. He said that due to the strong construction boom at the moment, prices for new buildings are rising enormously and it is difficult to find contractors and craftsmen. Therefore, we should expect significantly higher prices and a longer construction period of up to 1.5 years. Currently, the tenders for individual trades are hardly being processed and the few available contractors on the market are more interested in apartment buildings due to the effort.

Is there perhaps someone from [FFM] who is currently building with an independent architect?

Thanks for your answers

Our general contractor here from the Gießen area has a lead time of 15 months before they even start. They still get good craftsmen. Fingerhaus apparently also has the time. And those who build with architects generally started earlier, but have extreme downtime. It takes just as long until the construction is finished.

I think it usually takes 2 years from contract signing to moving in.

If you want to proceed reasonably cheaply and relatively quickly, take a general contractor or build a prefab house. Architect, forget it. No craftsman currently has any interest in architect houses. Construction meetings, thousands of emails, special requests, long payment terms, VOB stuff, they do not need any of that at the moment. Karsten

Build a prefabricated house and you save yourself a lot of architect fees. The thermal insulation compared to the costs is unbeatable compared to solid construction.

And what about the agreement on the completion deadline? An architect must adhere to that just as much as a general contractor, right?

Architects also have "their craftsmen," companies they work with frequently. You just have to inquire with them in time. If they get along well, I see no problem that it also works. And as I said, there is also a completion deadline in the architect's contract.

He already has a financing commitment based on a building description, construction cost breakdown, house plans, etc.

How is he supposed to run to a general contractor now and say I want a prefabricated house from program xyz?

Which completion deadline are you referring to?