ᐅ Building a Plot - Is It Still Possible to Build Without a Developer Today?
Created on: 1 Dec 2019 12:29
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blaekridor
Hello everyone,
We are planning to build a house in the outskirts of Leipzig. There are offers from developers that include both house and land. However, I would like to stay in control of the process and build with an architect. For this plan, I have spent six months searching for land. The result: it is almost impossible to find a plot, even in the more rural areas. Most of the available land has already been secured by developers (such as Heinz von Heiden, Kern, Rensch-Haus...).
So far, my land search has been through well-known online portals and local municipalities.
Do you have any tips on other ways to find land?
Do architects also help with finding land? They should have an interest in planning a house for their clients.
Looking forward to your replies.
Best regards
Martin
We are planning to build a house in the outskirts of Leipzig. There are offers from developers that include both house and land. However, I would like to stay in control of the process and build with an architect. For this plan, I have spent six months searching for land. The result: it is almost impossible to find a plot, even in the more rural areas. Most of the available land has already been secured by developers (such as Heinz von Heiden, Kern, Rensch-Haus...).
So far, my land search has been through well-known online portals and local municipalities.
Do you have any tips on other ways to find land?
Do architects also help with finding land? They should have an interest in planning a house for their clients.
Looking forward to your replies.
Best regards
Martin
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Reudnitzer3 Dec 2019 23:33The situation in Leipzig is quite different from what you might know from the West. I grew up in the Stuttgart metropolitan area. Starting just beyond Bietigheim, now beyond Sachsenheim, about 30 km (19 miles) away, Stuttgart would already begin.
Here, immediately beyond the Leipzig town sign, it’s still mostly open countryside. If I, not living exactly downtown, ride my bike for about 15 minutes, I’m in the city center. Fifteen minutes by car in the other direction, and I’m in a village. A proper village, surrounded by fields, with at most a few small new housing developments on its edges. At the beginning of the 2000s, the price per square meter was still in the two-digit range.
That has changed. Several municipalities quite far from the city but with good transport connections have developed sizable new housing areas, and the building plots there, if any are still available, are no longer really cheap.
The affordable plots can still be found out of the way—in infill lots in what can seem like dull villages to outsiders, located between brown coal pits and half-filled lakes, places where you really wouldn’t want to put your 160 sqm (1,722 sq ft) city villa amid the old GDR-style roughcast houses, even if you are just a thirty-minute drive from Leipzig.
Here, immediately beyond the Leipzig town sign, it’s still mostly open countryside. If I, not living exactly downtown, ride my bike for about 15 minutes, I’m in the city center. Fifteen minutes by car in the other direction, and I’m in a village. A proper village, surrounded by fields, with at most a few small new housing developments on its edges. At the beginning of the 2000s, the price per square meter was still in the two-digit range.
That has changed. Several municipalities quite far from the city but with good transport connections have developed sizable new housing areas, and the building plots there, if any are still available, are no longer really cheap.
The affordable plots can still be found out of the way—in infill lots in what can seem like dull villages to outsiders, located between brown coal pits and half-filled lakes, places where you really wouldn’t want to put your 160 sqm (1,722 sq ft) city villa amid the old GDR-style roughcast houses, even if you are just a thirty-minute drive from Leipzig.
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HilfeHilfe4 Dec 2019 06:42Reudnitzer schrieb:
The situation in Leipzig is quite different from what you know from the West. I grew up in the commuter belt around Stuttgart. Back then, Stuttgart already started 30 km (18.6 miles) away, beyond Bietigheim, now beyond Sachsenheim.
Here, immediately after the Leipzig town sign, it’s basically countryside. If I cycle for 15 minutes — not even living very centrally — I’m in the city center; a 15-minute drive the other way takes me to a village. A proper village, surrounded by fields, at most with a few small new housing developments on its edges. In the early 2000s, the price per square meter was still in the double digits.
That has changed. Some fairly distant but well-connected municipalities have built quite large new housing areas, and the building plots there, if there are any left, are not really cheap.
The cheaper plots are still available more off the beaten path, in building gaps in villages that outsiders might find dull, between brown coal pits and partly filled lakes, where you really wouldn’t want to build your 160 sqm (1,722 sq ft) city villa among the old East German roughcast houses, even if you’re only a thirty-minute drive from Leipzig. but that’s not really Leipzig!
I want to go to Leipzig!
Winniefred4 Dec 2019 07:23In the east, yes, because farmers there have been holding on tightly to their land so far. In all other directions, it’s not the same. Also, in the east, many fields are still located within the city limits because the suburbs were incorporated at some point – and since these areas have not been sold or developed yet, there is still a somewhat rural charm. However, it is within Leipzig, and it’s certainly not cheap there.
Winniefred schrieb:
and it is by no means cheap thereWith the necessary money, there are indeed plots available; near us, you can find some for 500€/m² (about $46 per ft²). However, an average earner in Leipzig cannot afford this, unless they then build a 100m² (1,076 ft²) Town & Country bungalow on it.ypg schrieb:
In the neighboring village, two semi-detached houses are currently being completed: the village or municipality was never mentioned in the advertisement. Hamburg-South for a village that only belongs to the metropolitan area and is 20 km (12 miles) away....Out of pure curiosity: Do you mean the one in "Hamburg" Helmstorf?
morph3us schrieb:
Out of pure curiosity: Are you referring to the ones in the "Hamburg"-Helmstorf area?Or something like that... yes. In any case, it’s not the right location where they are situated.
Do you have any connection to the houses?