ᐅ Is the construction boom still ongoing?

That's true. You mentally reduce the desired house size by 10-20%, leave out the double garage, and just like that, the price increases from recent years are accounted for, making it affordable again.

xMisterDx schrieb:

But as I already said, there is no indication that prices will become significantly cheaper in the short term, meaning within the next 2-3 years. The key interest rate is being raised and will remain elevated for some time, just as energy costs will not return to the levels of 2019 in the long run.

A market stalls most strongly exactly when one group of participants firmly believes they only need to wait a little longer for a favorable change benefiting buyers, while the other group holds the same belief—but in favor of sellers. When these so-called economists, using kitchen-table psychology, interpret “reliable, unmistakable parameters” as proof of their (false) hopes, the freeze is complete (and with hysteric chaos, you get the inverse recipe with the same ingredients). If you were to base your investment decisions on the advice of such people, you could reliably destroy even the largest fortunes. I always get a big bucket of popcorn when the TV guide says I can enjoy flipping between professors talking nonsense and charlatans. The next day I prefer to eat in a factory canteen, where I can hear the nonsense explained again in such a way that even I “understand” it—if you catch my drift...

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xMisterDx schrieb:

You mentally reduce the desired house size by 10–20%, omit the double garage, and then the price increases of recent years are balanced out and it becomes affordable again.

The reality is more like this: the house is reduced, but not from the start by 20%; instead, after at least a seemingly construction-ready plan, it is scaled down in three steps by 5%, 15%, and then 20%. The double garage is usually considered the most important feature and is often the last aspect to be cut. It is not uncommon for it to even be built larger to “save” a basement, even when this requires L-shaped concrete blocks at the same or higher cost because the plot of land does not allow for other solutions.

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Anyone building a basement today really shouldn’t complain about high costs anymore…

xMisterDx schrieb:

Anyone still building a basement today really shouldn’t complain about the high prices...

I don’t know what was being smoked at Schlauberg’s weekend market today, but maybe you should take a look at the 11ant basement rule here. Sometimes the plot of land speaks very loudly about whether a basement makes sense.

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11ant schrieb:

I don’t know what was being smoked at Schlauberg’s weekly market today, but maybe you should familiarize yourself with the 11ant basement rule. Plots of land sometimes have a very loud say in whether a basement is necessary.

Honestly, I don’t think you’re in a position to set any rules for me 😉
A basement might sometimes indeed be advisable, but what does that have to do with not being allowed to complain about prices?

You’re not forced to build where a basement becomes necessary... are you sure you don’t know what was being smoked at the weekly market? It seems to me you were standing in line ahead of me... so there was nothing left for me...