Strategy for selling a house - what is the best way to proceed?

Sprengnetter is still a service often used by financial brokers. Maybe as a private person you can also have your property appraised there?

My unfortunately prematurely deceased friend Dieter was highly competent for that, trained with them, and to my knowledge quite representative of the competence profile of people who work with them. Whether specialists who mention Sprengnetter in their profile offer this service under their brand, I do not know – but it is then very likely people who can do it well and already have some experience. They probably don’t ruin their name with beginners. However, I have not dealt with them in business yet. However, a technically watertight expertise plays a role rather in transactions between investors; the market in transactions between private individuals works more emotionally. This means that it is more likely that someone will still offer you less, or another person on their own considerably more (and both completely unimpressed by the expert’s valuation certificate), than that someone incorporates the appraisal value in the purchase contract. The latter I would almost call a peculiarity of inter-investor transactions. From private to private, such a certificate is probably rather wasted money because it exerts too little attraction on the needle of the final price, and it has no binding effect anyway. Even the buyer’s financing bank is regularly less impressed by the highest-caliber external expertise than by what the in-house comparison database says. So, as useful as it may be B2B, save it for C2C.

We have now initially chosen the straightforward way and made an appointment with our bank advisor, who kindly helped us with the financing. I already thought she was great on a personal level back then, and next week we will simply go there and tell her about our "Vision Objektwechsel," all still completely non-binding, and listen to our options. Surely, we can also find out if they can imagine continuing to support us, even for the new property. After all, both business partners already know each other as reliable here. Furthermore, this might avoid a prepayment penalty, and/or she can give us a rough estimate of how much we would have to pay. Surely, she can also give us tips on how to approach a possible sale price. We are probably not the first customers to plan something like this.

That's right... better to have as many conversations as possible – you definitely won't get any dumber from it. For the valuation, I still have the idea to simply add up the new construction costs based on the current status: land costs, sqm x 3K€, incidental costs, garden and landscaping contractors, etc.

For the valuation, I also had the idea to simply add up the current new construction costs bluntly: land costs, sqm x 3K€, incidental costs, garden and landscaping, etc.

In the case of the OP, it's about a used house in the usual sense, which would require a more detailed consideration. For , the situation is more unusual, but the answer is found much more quickly: if I remember correctly, the first occupation was less than two years ago. In that case (if selling now), I would add about eight to ten percent to the construction costs (without doormats and curtains, but otherwise ready for painting) without batting an eye. No discount just because the original box has already been thrown away ;-)

In the case of the OP, it is about a used house in the usual sense, so that would have to be looked at in more detail. In 's case, the matter is more unusual, but the answer is found much faster: if I remember correctly, the first occupancy was less than two years ago. In that case, I would (if selling now) add about eight to ten percent to the construction costs (without doormat and curtains, but otherwise painter-ready) without batting an eye. No discounts just because the original box has already been thrown away ;-)

Sorry, I thought the thread had meanwhile become a -only thread, which I was also referring to with my post. For fun, I would really calculate with new costs (probably more like +20%). Of course, it depends on the area and the local market, but even here in the deepest province, general contractors buy plots, put some house on it, and sell it at sky-high prices. I was recently in a new development area and one of our former construction workers asked me what I would estimate the price of the new house there to be. I then applied our prices (construction & move-in 2020) and was off by a whopping 30%.

We have listed our house, yesterday 2 viewings, today 2.

So far we have received 3 purchase commitments.

I will not consider any further numerous inquiries for now.. very exhausting

All the interested parties were likeable, one party was especially likeable to us.

They contacted us 1 hour after the viewing and agreed. They also told us that their bank would send an appraiser for the purchase price.

What does such a bank appraiser do?

I don't want to reject the others and later have the appraiser ruin the deal for us?!