ᐅ What surveying costs are associated with the land?

Created on: 24 Jan 2018 18:56
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Emetic
Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you for this great forum. As a silent reader, I have already found a lot of valuable information.

We are currently planning our single-family home, and I am intensively dealing with the incidental construction costs. I am still a bit unsure about the surveying topic.

The plot of land we have reserved is in a new development area that is just being developed.

According to the municipality, after the completion of the infrastructure work, the entire area will be surveyed, and the costs will be apportioned among the future owners. However, the building permit / planning permission can already be applied for beforehand, based on the plans already available at the responsible building authority. The subdivision of the plots has already been done digitally, and only minor changes are expected.

After the shell construction or the house is completed, our building authority will automatically notify the office responsible for digitization, broadband, and surveying, which will then automatically carry out the final measurement of the building for the land registry office.

At what point do we still need to hire a surveyor? The architect / construction company / the one who has to build the scaffolding / ... will certainly need additional data that we cannot simply get from the building authority, right? What costs should we expect at this stage, and which services should I request from the surveyor to get a quote?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.
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ypg
1 Feb 2018 12:58
@body123
We paid €195 net for the site plan 5 years ago.
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body123
1 Feb 2018 13:01
We are building for the first time, and I am a bit confused about the surveying and the associated costs.
The quote was obtained by our construction company from a licensed surveyor... One person says it’s cheap, another says it’s way too expensive...
What exactly is required in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)?

The plot is located in a fully developed new residential area. The boundaries, lengths, and elevations have already been established, there is an address, and there are also plans with measurements of the plot and the entire development area. Basically, everything is available.
The plot has been purchased, and we are waiting for the ownership to be registered in the land register.
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Escroda
1 Feb 2018 13:15
ypg schrieb:
We paid 195€ net 5 years ago for a site plan

We shouldn’t compare apples to oranges (or more like dried fruit in this case). I don’t think your site plan would meet the requirements of the Building Inspection Ordinance (BauPrüfVO) in NRW.
body123 schrieb:
What is actually required in NRW?

A site plan according to §3 of the Building Inspection Ordinance (BauPrüfVO). If none of the conditions in §3 (3) apply, the designer of the plans could also prepare the site plan. Whether that is cheaper, I don’t know. In any case, I have seen many site plans from architects that were only good for filing and ended up delaying the approval process.
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ypg
1 Feb 2018 13:43
Escroda schrieb:
We shouldn’t compare apples and oranges (or, in this case, more like dried fruit). I don’t believe your site plan would meet the requirements of the building inspection regulations (BauPrüfVO) in NRW...

See #4, which is what I referred to with the direct address
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Escroda
1 Feb 2018 14:05
ypg schrieb:
See #4

Exactly!
Apple: Qualified site plan according to the North German row house regulation in Westphalian building approval ordinance
Dried fruit: Simple site plan according to Lower Saxony building submission regulation
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body123
1 Feb 2018 14:49
So, is a "non-official" site plan still considered a qualified site plan if it is prepared by a publicly appointed surveyor?

Does an "official" site plan then cost even more?

Accordingly, does the term "simple" site plan not refer to the "non-official" site plan?