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:
Either they were all Superman, or it’s true after all: Our modern lifestyle makes us physically weak, mentally impoverished, and less socially connected.That really gives a whole new meaning to the word antisocial behavior
pffreestyler schrieb:
Whenever I read comments like this, it feels like I live in a completely different world up here. Maybe that’s why we people from Schleswig-Holstein always rank first in the happiness rankings in Germany...
In our village, for example, there are currently three individuals building a house with a net income below 2k per month...Well, I already mentioned:"""Today, only people who earn enough (> $7k monthly) or those who never earned well and never will.
Because they take out a loan, pay the installments until they can’t anymore, and then they sell. That’s it. Until then, hopefully, they’ve lived well and enjoyed the house."""
Seriously though… Nordlys has shown with his build that it can be done cheaper and more reasonably.
And when I listen to the much-loved Konrad Fischer here, you can also bypass the energy saving regulation as soon as one of the "required" technologies doesn’t pay off financially within 10 years.
So, everything is doable. You just shouldn’t let the media and lobbyists easily convince you otherwise. Think for yourself and act on your own. Then it will work out.
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HilfeHilfe10 Apr 2019 18:21Mottenhausen schrieb:
It gets really interesting when the Greens push through their current proposal for the forced expropriation of undeveloped land. In Tübingen, it's already almost too late, if you believe the recent media reports.
The government is exchanging its paper money for land. Wow! Unnecessary interference in the free market. When the municipalities were broke, they sold off their huge real estate portfolios for next to nothing. Of course, there was a backlog of maintenance. So what did they do? They invested a little money and raised the rents. There should have been a clause: maximum rent plus an amount to cover renovations. Now everyone is complaining again.
There is a lot of confusion here.
In northern Germany, building plots on slopes are certainly less common. However, in southern Germany, depending on the region, they are very frequent. Flat building plots are in high demand and scarce.
This fact alone can already cause additional costs of several tens of thousands of euros, even with affordable solutions (retaining walls, earthworks, excavation, etc.) and DIY work. Currently, waste disposal sites in Baden-Württemberg charge quite high prices for soil excavation that cannot be otherwise disposed of or reused.
In northern Germany, building plots on slopes are certainly less common. However, in southern Germany, depending on the region, they are very frequent. Flat building plots are in high demand and scarce.
This fact alone can already cause additional costs of several tens of thousands of euros, even with affordable solutions (retaining walls, earthworks, excavation, etc.) and DIY work. Currently, waste disposal sites in Baden-Württemberg charge quite high prices for soil excavation that cannot be otherwise disposed of or reused.
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hampshire10 Apr 2019 23:52Cost drivers also include the required standards, which also apply to social housing. Here, I would like to see a bit more pragmatism.