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Building houses in Germany (and Austria should be the same) is pretty expensive. Houses here are built to last 100+ years out of mostly stone-based materials wi
by ascar 5y ago
Building houses in Germany (and Austria should be the same) is pretty expensive. Houses here are built to last 100+ years out of mostly stone-based materials with expensive wiring, insulation and heating. Wooden houses with electrical HVAC taking care of cooling and heating is basically non existant here. Most houses don't even have an HVAC system, but just a heating system (i.e. no ventilation, no cooling).
The sturdy way to build immensely drives up costs for material and labor.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoThe high real estate prices Germany have more to do with the price of land/area, bureaucracy around building and nimbyism rather than material costs and labor.
- ascar 5y agoI wasn't talking about real estate prices. I was literally talking about construction costs. Having just been involved in building a small/medium 3 story + basement house for over 1 million Euros (we already owned the land), I agree about the bureaucracy driving costs (mostly through mandated actions adding high labor costs), but your other points were irrelevant. Construction prices are crazy when compared to the wood construction often found in the US.