Sloping plot - is 5° a lot? + further steps.

Hello everyone,

My wife and I urgently need to think about a new place to live due to a new addition to the family. Since rental apartments with enough rooms are scarce and we are not flexible to move to another location, we are considering a plot of land that is still family-owned.

I will submit a building inquiry soon.

What is important to us:
- It should rather be temporary living, maybe 10 years.
- There need to be 4 "rooms" (2x children's rooms, 1x bedroom, 1x office) + the rest that one usually needs (building services, living room, kitchen, bathrooms, etc.)
- It should be built as cheaply as possible, since the plot of land is already very expensive (850 sqm, 350 €/sqm)
- The house should be around 120 sqm (e.g. Danwood Family 119 with basement or Danwood Family 134 without basement).

Now to the specific questions:
With a slope of 4-5 degrees (over 8.5 m there is about 60 centimeters slope from right to left), is a basement or a slab foundation more worthwhile?

Are there similarly affordable providers to Danwood?
I have calculated Family 119 at 130,000 euros.
Family 134 is at 139,000 euros. Both including underfloor heating.
Massa visited us, but their shell house is already more expensive than the "turnkey" Danwood house (even when adding wallpaper, interior doors, laminate, etc.). Not to mention the work involved.
Scanhaus Marlow Marlow is unfortunately too expensive.

One more question:
Since future heirs depend on the plot, I want to have the plot valued legally, especially due to local peculiarities (plot too large for standard land value, rear side borders the A3 motorway, neighboring plot built with refugee accommodations). Two certified experts both came in at about 2000 euros cost-wise. Is this value realistic?

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

(Attached is a sketch of the house and garage on the plot)

With the garage located so far at the back, the driveway will be a space eater.

Is a basement or a slab more worthwhile given the slope of 4-5 degrees (over 8.5m there is about 60 centimeters slope from right to left)?

I clearly see it in the area of "slab".

Are there similarly affordable providers to Danwood?

Affordability especially when looking in the shell construction segment, the local contractor is at least not worse than the well-known discounters.

I am not clear about the situation with the property. Do you have to buy it from the family? Then it is in your possession and no longer part of an old inheritance but yours. In the case of inheritance, the current value applies, not what was estimated years ago. As 11ant already wrote, rather a floor slab. A basement would only increase your project’s costs. Are there no existing apartments or houses in the area? That would probably be cheaper than a crappy plot + house construction. Are there possibly noise protection regulations, for example for the windows due to the proximity to the highway?

Yes, the property belongs to my wife’s grandmother. The future heirs are not particularly well-disposed towards us, which is why everything without a proper purchase price would certainly pose a problem for us later. Existing properties are unfortunately very expensive. Just today again an offer including an appraisal by an expert from near the property: 1975, 125 sqm, 800 sqm land, original bathrooms, small rooms, no special insulation, €440,000. I want to clarify the noise protection requirements through the building inquiry. A shell house, like at Massa Haus, is too extreme for us, the job and newborn baby don’t allow that much free time. I would like to make the driveway gravel, but I don’t care about the area itself; I don’t want a garden I have to maintain. A few wildflowers plus lawn is enough.

The classic, inexpensive yet quite good, is Town & Country.
Construction without a basement.
Danwood is somewhat deceptive, as far as I know, the floor slab is missing.

The grandma can do whatever she wants. The future heirs can't do anything about it. If it is already foreseeable now, I would rather keep my hands off it. It will be worse in the event of inheritance. Later, better to auction the whole thing as a community of heirs... Is there currently a house on it? According to the appraiser, yes. Demolition or an additional house on the property? With €440k plus a new house and incidental costs, you'll break the €600k mark. If you want to demolish, it'll be even more expensive. For that, you can definitely find another property that is move-in ready faster, takes less time (own effort), and is not so problematic. I don't even want to start with the location.