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?
Nordlys schrieb:
Tenants are responsible for minor repairs up to 100 (currency not specified). Well, then you have a "problem" anyway.
hampshire schrieb:
The price development does not reflect wage developmentHowever, this has nothing to do with "extreme locations." I was referring to places where the "value" of a property is determined by the budget of the highest bidder. Such purchase situations will never be reasonably related to general wage development.
This certainly also occurs outside the cities typically mentioned in discussions like these, but it is not the norm there and tends to be limited to certain neighborhoods. We have a residential area here with land prices exceeding 600€ (about 650 USD) per square meter, but that doesn’t mean anyone outside that area can sell an older building for 500,000€ (about 540,000 USD) or more.
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wurmwichtel9 Apr 2019 14:50Zaba12 schrieb:
We’ve had this discussion several times. The middle class ranges widely and isn’t just represented by the median. That’s true. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that people earning below the median income usually cannot afford to buy property because their income is too low. Competition between private buyers and commercial investors certainly plays a role. The rest is handled by lobbying.
Musketier schrieb:
The basic problem is that a lot of what is considered standard in house building is actually a luxury. But: “You only build once.” It’s no wonder houses keep getting more expensive… Compared to today’s prices, a shell construction built to the 1995 energy saving standards would cost about half as much. Heating expenses would be 70 to 100% higher, but who cares when you compare €50,000 (about $54,000) or more to around €600 (about $650) per year?
Environmental impact? Forget it! Decision-makers couldn’t care less.
ypg schrieb:
...Daycare outside the home is better in the city than in rural areas, where the woman and mother can rather stay at home because building a house is cheaper there... I can’t confirm that. In our former hometown (about 180,000 inhabitants), we would have had to compete for a daycare spot. In more rural areas, it wasn’t exactly handed out freely, but it was easier to get one. It was also cheaper back then because, unlike the big city described, the municipality didn’t have private daycare providers.
Jean-Marc schrieb:
...The best properties on the market are sold privately 99% of the time. No connections, no chance... You can only appeal to personal initiative here.
Anyone who relies solely on internet search engines and, at most, newspaper ads won’t find much that way.
We used geoportals to find building gaps and then visited them to see if they were suitable. After that, it was time to introduce ourselves and knock on neighbors’ and owners’ doors.
Winniefred9 Apr 2019 14:54It’s the same here – in the rural areas around our town, there are plenty of daycare places available. In fact, some children from our town even attend daycare in the surrounding rural communities because there are no spots available in the town itself. A friend of mine lives 50km (31 miles) away in a rural area (we already live on the outskirts of the town), and in her daycare, there are children who live in my town. I assume, however, that the parents also work somewhere nearby or at least halfway between.