ᐅ Is the real estate market increasingly forcing families to build their own homes?
Created on: 6 Apr 2019 11:35
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Thierse
Actually, we would prefer to avoid building. Unfortunately, existing properties within a 20 km (12 miles) radius have become quite expensive, and affordable rental houses with small gardens are simply scarce.
Until now, we have been living in an old rental apartment without a garden. We would like to change that, but there is a lack of options. The listings on various platforms are overcrowded with families looking for affordable housing.
Who is familiar with this situation, and how do you deal with it?
Until now, we have been living in an old rental apartment without a garden. We would like to change that, but there is a lack of options. The listings on various platforms are overcrowded with families looking for affordable housing.
Who is familiar with this situation, and how do you deal with it?
chand1986 schrieb:
Was the question rhetorical?
Low-income earners don’t earn so little because they contribute less or are less intelligent, but because society simply doesn’t pay more for these services. As if we could do without them… and as if everyone could take care of children, the elderly, or the sick, but still be smart enough to program (or collect garbage, etc.).
Low wages for irreplaceable jobs combined with society withdrawing from housing development. So nurses simply can’t afford to live there. How rude or kind, smart or naive they are doesn’t matter at all. Sounds like the situation in the US, but we must not forget that we still have a middle class. Here, no one needs to earn €150,000 gross or more (except in Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt) to afford a home around a metropolitan area (within 30m (100 ft)).
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chand19868 Apr 2019 12:27Zaba12 schrieb:
one must not forget that we still have an existing middle class. But you emphasized that still nicely.
I don’t think the middle class is disappearing. In fact, they are the ones currently buying the expensive properties, and they can afford them.
It’s just that the middle class is no longer as easy to identify, since typical jobs in the past, such as civil servants, are not as well paid today.
It’s just that the middle class is no longer as easy to identify, since typical jobs in the past, such as civil servants, are not as well paid today.
Tassimat schrieb:
I don’t think the middle class is disappearing. After all, they are currently buying the expensive properties. And they can afford it.
You just can’t recognize the middle class as easily anymore, because professions that were typical in the past, like civil servants for example, are no longer as well off today. I agree completely. A few posts above, it was mentioned that a hairdresser in the city cannot afford an apartment. I once watched a documentary where a master hairdresser with her own salon earned barely 1400€ gross after all expenses for a 50-hour week.
I don’t want to be unfair, but people really need to think early on about what they want to do, earn, and own later in life.
There are professions where you live paycheck to paycheck with the salary. If you choose that path, you shouldn’t complain afterwards.
It is what it is, and I assume some here will agree with me. If you don’t have personnel responsibilities and aren’t above the administrative level, none of us really overwork ourselves (in a large company), right? Is that fair? Probably not, but in our society, you are not paid for performance but for experience and decision-making authority.
Whether that’s a good thing is another question.
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wurmwichtel8 Apr 2019 16:24Zaba12 schrieb:
...Here, nobody needs to earn a gross income of 150,000 euros or more (except in Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt) to afford a home around a metropolitan area (up to 30 meters (20 miles)) away. Nevertheless, a household income well above the median is required to purchase real estate. Otherwise, it simply won’t work.
If you check where the median stands, it becomes clear how many people are simply unable to afford their own property. This affects more than 65% of all households, so it is hardly insignificant.
Zaba12 schrieb:
I once saw a documentary where a master hairdresser with her own shop earned only about €1400 gross after all expenses, working a 50-hour week.Well, from what I’ve heard. Over the weekend, there was quite a large article in the daily newspaper here: a hairdressing chain had to close 3 branches last year because they couldn’t find staff, even though they offer €2300 gross for a 40-hour week plus €20–30 tips per day – that’s about €2000 net. I know several highly qualified people who don’t earn that much...