American reacts to House Prices in Germany

[@Lichti82]

Same old joke: houses in the US are cheaper because you have to buy a new one after each thunderstorm 😅

[@ryanwass]

Nooooo just a new roof!

[@karingoerke7264]

What they call House wouldn't get called Gartenhaus in Germany, because they are built more strong and are isolated. American Houses like German "Schuppen" so, the Garage of the lawn mower 😂

[@avysark2034]

​@@karingoerke7264it should be said that houses can be built quite sturdy, even with 4x6 and that there are plenty of good builds, only that the focus there is more often than not on cheap and quick builds that'll last just long enough so the builder can't be sued anymore. On the other hand, Germany and Europe in general have probably plenty of other flaws in this field, which the US doesn't have and I'm saying that as someone who's no big fan of the latter.

[@wisi4044]

​@@ryanwasswe have houses older than america 🇨🇭

[@CabinFever52]

@@ryanwass , In Ohio, I had to put a new roof on our house 3x in 2 years, due to poor construction, poor labor, and poor materials, but mostly poor labor.

[@eaglevision993]

Regarding the first house on your list, "mit viel Potential" is real estate agent´s talk for "it will fall apart without a complete rebuilt."

[@mats7492]

"with lots of potential" means its a complete dump and you have invest at least another 100k in renovating it if not more

[@hypatian9093]

"Reparaturstau" is at least honest, but very euphemistic.

[@eaglevision993]

@@hypatian9093 Other great describtions of a dump are "Heimwerkertraum", "viel Platz für individuelle Ideen", "rustikales Ambiente", "leichter Reparaturstau", "Rohdiamant"...

[@eaglevision993]

My grampa built my current home in the early 80s. I still have the original bills from the contractors which total around 200.000 DM (roughly 100.000 Euro, without inflation). After an addition and extensive renovation it was valued at 1.4 million from by the insurance company last year. Prices are all over the place.

[@denzzlinga]

The same with land values. My great grandparents got a small field as present from their aunt when they married in the late 30s, and today it´s a worth well over 1 million (+ the house). The village was a total "Kuhkaff" back then, with no infrastructure and almost farmers only living there. Today it´s more or less a suburb of a big city with more than 5 times more people living there, and all theese old farmer´s properties in the middle of the village are worth a ton of money.

[@hypatian9093]

Depends on the area and how well you did with maintenance/repairs. Small town in Northern Germany - a house in our street was torn down two years ago because nobody wanted to buy it due to "Reparaturstau". Now the owners hope that the plot itself will sell better... well... now we regularly have half a dozen sheep as neighbours that do a bit of lawn maintenance ;)

[@denzzlinga]

@@hypatian9093 i´d buy it, for the children or grandchildren.

[@jellysquiddles3194]

​@@hypatian9093The annoying thing is that people are so dillusional they think people can pay half a million for a crappy property in bad location, when they got it for 1/10th of the price (which was already a lot).

[@robopecha]

basically the other way round for my parents. they spent around a million in the early 80s on building the house they wanted and sold it a few years ago for 350.000€, because no one was willing to pay more. its a great and unique house with super expensive materials from all over the world, but in a shitty small town.

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

The secon house doesn't actually exist yet. Those pictures are computer generated to get you to contact them. Then they will tell you that for the price quoted you actually only get a garden shed, and to get whats in the pictures you need to pay 1-2 Mil.. ..😆

[@goodgame2064]

Noo leave him in his imagination

[@Trymon1980]

Also this should be just the price for the house. You need also some land to build on

[@rottenlettus]

Yep, the 2. one is probably just the foundation, floor, walls, roof, doors and windows. Maybe the Bathroom is included. For everything else you have to pay extra

[@sandrasauerkraut8741]

@@rottenlettusI‘d bet a lot of money that bathrooms are NOT included. Probably not even the doors.

[@mats7492]

indeed. THAT house in berlin is over 1 million easily..

[@sabinereimer7809]

Houses in Germany are mostly really build like the people want them... because if you can afford to build a house you assume to live in there for the rest of your life! Most of these are build out of cinderblock with concrete. The rooms have doors that you can regulate the heat in every room individually. The room you were thinking as a garage was a basement with a heating system (the big red thing).😊

[@BlueFlash215]

This isn't that common anymore. It was until a decade ago. Now "Fertighäuser", partial pre-built homes, are on the rise as a cheap alternative. You can customize them a little, depending on what type you go for. Basically you can fit different types of rooms into the square they give you as an outer wall.

[@slack84]

You wondered how durable german roofs are, so here's a good example for you: My parents house was built in 1898 and we bought it in the early 90's and back then the roof was in good shape, still got all the original woodwork just a few tiles needed to be replaced. but my dad knew he would at some point need to renovate the whole roof as the woodwork was a hundred years old. in 2017 then a huge storm damaged part of the roof and we had carpenters there to check what exactly needs to be renewed. Turns out almost all of the original Woodworks was still in a really good shape (back in the 19th century they used massive oak beams and trusses to ensure the roof would endure a long time) so just a few oak beams/trusses needed to be replaced where the storm struck, that and a few new tiles and we were good to go. So with good maintenance a well built German roof could last for over 100 years.

[@hypatian9093]

The house I live in got new tiles + insulation under it for its 100th birthday some years ago. The roof framework needed no work and should be good for the next decades :)

[@caroline6544]

I am so fascinated that you cannot recognize a regular (maybe more modern designed) Ceiling lamp. 😂I really wonder now what lights in the US look like. But I really like this format. Please do this more often! And maybe also look at some flats; this shows better how most people live in cities. There is a huge range.

[@101steel4]

They all seem to have the same. Tiny round globe thing, or those ghastly ceiling fans.

[@caroline6544]

Thats kinda boring.😂 It must be a sad place for product or furniture designers@@101steel4

[@AHVENAN]

Ceiling fans are, from what I understand extremely common in the US, I've heard some people say they have one in basically every room except maybe the bathroom and entrance hall

[@101steel4]

@@AHVENAN yes they love them. I can't stand them personally. They remind me of 1970s Asian homes.

[@Herzschreiber]

haha same here. I guess it is because of this somehow old fashioned style (70ies maybe?). Or do Americans really not have any long ceiling lamps hanging above their dinner tables?

[@ThomasGanterPrien]

Our house was built in the 70s. The 1770s ... 😊

[@MaryRaine929]

There are different kinds of problems with buying/building houses in Germany: 1. We have much less space than in the US. Building land is rare, small and expensive (what often leads to the beachtowel garden😆). 2. Existing houses are often owned by older people, who built a big house for their children, that moved out a long time ago. Now they still live there alone or as a couple, which is totally legit, but at the same time families with more than one child often have a hard time finding an adequate place to live. Same problem with renting. 3. Speculation of course. 🙄

[@manub.3847]

Additions: 1) By today's standards, almost 700 square meters is already generous in some areas, as individual houses sometimes stand on almost 300 square meters of land. 2) Especially at retirement age, it is often a difficult decision: you often only pay the additional costs (insurance, property tax, energy costs, etc.) which you can cover from your pension and in this way try to maintain an inheritance for your children/grandchildren. And selling to move into a rental apartment or smaller condo sometimes involves higher costs. Example: House without energy renovation sold for €380,000 -> new apartment with amenities within walking distance (shopping, doctors, etc.) may then cost more than you got for your house, since senior-friendly access and bathrooms as well as new energy standards are already met. (or still have to be installed by you) Pensioners often pay less in rented apartments because they have been tenants for decades and cannot financially afford to "exchange" the large 4-room apartment for a smaller 2-room apartment because they would then pay a higher rent.

[@eaglevision993]

Yeah, like my neighbors. They had 2 children and one of their parents lived with them in a nice 4000 sqft home. Now there´s just the 2 of them and they basically use 3 rooms.

[@Leenapanther]

A Germany has a lot of space to build houses compared to Switzerland. Single family houses get replaced with six apartment buildings.

[@Lisa-xn9xc]

If you want to buy a house in a village you will have no problem to find something big (it would be harder to find something small). It's a problem when you want to rent something. When the old people die and their children get the house, it's not worth the effort to rent it - they would have to divide the rent by multiple heirs, one of them would have to take care of the renters, there would always be discussions about what to repair, how to do it and so on. Plus you could have problems with 'Mietnomanden' - people who don't pay the rent, destroy things and live there for a year until you can force them to leave and then they do the same thing in the next house. It's easier to sell it.

[@cantinadudes]

​@@Lisa-xn9xcyou can force people out after a month not a year

[@sudarshandahal2144]

400k for a house, almost anywhere in germany is considered incredible price. Also we use . instead of commas for thousands. So 2.400 was 2.4K as the rent of the whole house without utilities.

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

400k around where I live is doable, but any less than that is probably a scam.

[@callishandy8133]

If you buy a new house (attention these house is smaler than the US house) and the ground around the house is smaller = a squerefoot ground is expensive in germany ! Remember 84 million germans stay at the half size of TEXAS. Same amount of density in the US and all US citizen stay only in Texas and California. The rest of the US is not existing for the US population. Result = To life your life is only possible when everyone need less space, the roads are smaller, the parking places are smaler, the cars are smaller.

[@spanishcrab]

If you think those prices are expensive, try to look for Munich prices

[@lulaa123]

Yeah he really should do that. I just looked up houses in Munich and they basically start at a million

[@mats7492]

Or Hamburg.. they dont even start under 1.5 million!

[@ririri88]

You have to inherit a fortune or be a russian oligarch 😂 or both.

[@Attirbful]

Note also, that in Germany, there is no mandatory home owner‘s association membership as in the U.S. There are home owner‘s associations that you can voluntarily become a member of and they advise you in legal questions, but there is no neighborhood gang that can ask you to trim your lawn or adhere to certain neighborhood standards. We have government agencies for that (such as restricting the shape or style a house being built in an already existing neighborhood so as to keep a historical or local appearance of an entire neighborhood intact, or what color you can paint your house etc.)

[@snowjaeger6113]

If you own an apartment, then you definitely need to become a member of the home owners association of the building/property… but this homeowner associations are set-up completely differently. Also, town houses are also often organized in homeowner associations, where central heating or communal gardens exist, or other community owned installations, like a common roof.

[@Attirbful]

@@snowjaeger6113 Yeah, as I never owned an apartment or a house in the U.S. but only rented, I do not know much about these associations. I am very interested in American architecture though and in particular historical homes and follow a Facebook group on historical houses on the market as well as other realty-related groups and there first encountered the concept of them. Here in Germany, I currently own two houses and, as said, we do not have these associations with a mandated membership and regular contributions… Here, communal property is taken care of by the municipal agencies and paid for via taxes, for home owners in particular the “Grundsteuer.“ From these, things such as street upkeep, street lighting, snow service on the streets, the canalization upkeep etc. are paid for.

[@snowjaeger6113]

@@Attirbfulby communal I don’t mean city or country property. Often multiple townhouses share a single roof or central heating with their neighbors. Particularly often I ran across this in lower Germany. So if you own such a town house in Germany you need to pay into the HOA (ETG) for maintenance and renovations. HOAs 🏡 in the USA 🇺🇸 however have a very different mission and rights than ETGs 🏡 in Germany 🇩🇪

[@Attirbful]

@@snowjaeger6113 As far as I know, however, in the U.S. the HOA can go as far as dictating certain measures to unattached houses, entire neighborhoods so to speak as well as ask for mandatory contributions to neighborhood watches, for example. I‘ll have to do some research on this…

[@1337Arnonym]

You have to take in consideration the 3 most important factors which dertermine the price: 1. location 2. location and not forget about: 3. location In rural areas you can buy a 150 qm 2 story house (2-4 bedrooms, 1-2 bathrooms and a 600-900 qm yard) for 200.000 - 350.000 €. Same price which only will get you a 1-2 room apartement in a big city (i.e. munich, hamburg, berlin).

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

I think infrastructure might be 3 in some occasions. But that's arguably part of location. And if you go REALLY rural you can even go below 100k. But then there is no discussion, you need a car. For everything. (Including picking up packages left with a neighbor in some cases.)

[@steemlenn8797]

In an East German 30K town you can buy 4 or 6 family houses for 200-300K. Of course those houses are a bit older and the last deep renovation was probably in the late 90s. But it's not like it's hard to live in them. Or a "Bungalow with lots of potential" for under 100K.

[@MyvIsLove2]

how tho? my 64m² apartment was 130k already and I live in the smallest town

[@jackydoucet9037]

With regard to rural areas it really depends where the rural is located. For instance in the South West of Germany, you'll easily pay 300 k only for the land itself. So the entire house will not cost less than 500-600 k in the cheapest version.

[@sungi7814]

In Bayern ist es nirgendwo rural genug dass das ausreicht.

[@TobiasTimpe]

„My house is old. It was built in the …“ - Why was I expecting him to say 80s or 90s? 😀

[@uliwehner]

same here. My house here in Georgia is "old" it was built in the 70s. It is very typical to buy houses like mine, which sits on 2 acres (8000m2) in the woods, completely gut the interior, rip out walls, convert to more open floor plan, add more bathrooms, etc. i have a 5 bedroom house with 2.5 bathrooms. Modern houses would have a bathroom per bedroom. So i would end up with say 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. This is a 10 room house btw. 3500 square foot. i bought it for a little over 200k 20 years ago, right now it is valued over 400k.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

"My house is old. It was built in the 30s", he says. My closest friend's family home was built in 1430s, but has had some additions since, most recently around 1880s. As in the US, some cities are more expensive in Germany, notably München and Frankfurt. In Munich, a 4-bed house in the suburbs is around €1.7 million. With a decently large yard in an upper-middle class neighbourhood, it is more like €3 to €3.5 million.

[@JHenry-wv1xv]

The cheapest houses are still in rural eastern Germany. Not so many anymore, but still a few exceptional properties. Mine cost just under $20,000, very much in need of renovation but habitable, 650sqft of living space, 1500sqft of outbuildings (garages, sheds and a gymnasium that looks like an old brick church without a steeple), 10,000sqft of land (overgrown sports field framed by old trees). Actually I was looking for a 2 bedroom apartment, but that was cheaper calculated on 10 years.

[@lmchron9343]

Never seen a house for under 100k in germany. 20k sounds like ur trolling

[@klarasee806]

Must be in VERY rural eastern Germany, without okayish internet, next doctor about 50km away, no school, no kindergarten, very poor infrastructure in general, very much in need of renovation, very old oil heating (if any heating at all), very poor insulation (> high energy costs)… okay, maybe, if you are very „lucky“. I have once looked for something like that, just out of curiosity, but the cheapest houses I found back then were WAYYYYY more than 20.000 €, and in most cases only somewhat habitable after renovation.

[@eaglevision993]

@@lmchron9343 In rural parts of the former GDR territory you can very well find a home for 20k. Even less. But it will be in need of a full renovation or better yet teardown and rebuild. The land there is cheap and a crappy house on it actually depreciates the value of the lot since most of them are inhabitable.

[@blatterrascheln2267]

​@@lmchron9343Can happen, my parents house went with around 75.000, but without any surrounding property in the middle of a village, no garden, no anything, with expecting major renovations in electrics and with a floor plan not suitable for modern times, only a coal-cellar and a half-usable attic, all around 160 m2. It was an inhabitable home but no fun if you want something modern and open with connected rooms and maybe two bathrooms or something. When sold, they basically build a whole new inside and crammed 4 apartments inside :(

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

20k? The ruins of a medieval barn in the middle of a swamp don’t count. Anything within commuting distance of a place that has running water and jobs starts at 200k, and more like 300-500 including renovation costs.

[@elsapain4172]

Pls watch a episode of "die Schnäppchenhäuser" XD its about "normal" german people buying cheap houses and then re-buildiing most of it on there own. And if i remember right, there was often familie/people too that bought absolut ruins and needed then to move in cause they already quit there old homes(so has trash tv also a bit in it^^)

[@Snapatmung]

we try to keep the doors shut for energy efficiency reasons, to keep rooms heated.

[@QuikkNic]

Yeah, that’ll save us 🎉

[@Snapatmung]

@@QuikkNic 1. its about saving money for me and my family 2. that attitude does not save anyone but you

[@wolfgangpreier9160]

And open all windows the whole day to "LÜFTEN"!

[@Briefstuder]

Marburg is a town with a pretty big University so it’s more expensive to live there than in a „normal“ town in the countryside.

[@tarik2021]

1. The location of the house is a main factor of how much it costs. 2. You forgot to put a Yard in the costs. A house which has 140m2 livingspace doesn´t cost 500k, but a house with 140m2 livingspace and a complete size(Grundstück) of 500m2 does cost that much. "Grundstück" means the complete size of the yard and house (1,2,3,...floor and cellar doesn´t count towards it). It get´s measured like there would be no house. In some places in Austria only the "Grundstück" can cost with ~700m2 from 50-200k in the country and up to 1.3mill. in a city, in the Capital a 945m2 "Grundstück" costs 3mil. (3.400$/m2) and that´s not even that much found even one which costs +4.000$/m2. 3. Our houses aren´t hounted we would call the police and sue them for "Lärmbelestigung nach ruhezeiten" and/or "Sachbeschädigung".

[@manub.3847]

b) Not to forget that he perceived the “advertising” for a “basic house” without land as a cheap price. It's good if you have (inherited) a property and can do all the interior work yourself, including the bathroom and heating. Otherwise the house would cost at least twice as much + land. Here in our town (Northern Germany) the square meter of building land costs €650 and in the next small town it costs “only” €500 per square meter. The joke is that in the next small town there are a few apartment blocks with 14 or 15 floors and more rented units, which push the purchase prices down a bit. Otherwise you can say that today you pay around 4 times the original purchase price for a house from the 1980s/1990s.

[@McGhinch]

While Marburg seems to be a small city, it has a good university. It also is the home of the Marburger Bund, a union of employed doctors. Many people in Marburg are not on the poorer side of life. (This is a very abbreviated statement -- for more colors investigate yourself.)

[@hypatian9093]

Yes, houses + apartments even in smaller cities are expensive if there's a university.

[@juliaclaire42]

He was good at picking cities with universities. Bamberg also has a good one.

[@McGhinch]

@@juliaclaire42He is, but I wouldn't want that house. It is out in the middle of almost nowhere. You need a car for shopping. There is no grocer and just one restaurant (pizzeria) there. And with our freak weather you first must make the boiler room water proof -- the Baunach (the little creek) might come calling.

[@ursschnatterfleck6019]

I ❤ Marburg! Pretty town with nice people.

[@fraumeh]

Most of the pictures with the neat looking, modern houses were "fake", they are just advertising how you could build a house with that offer - and the prices of these "still to built"-houses often seem cheap, but it's just the "Rohbau", like the walls, basic floors, windows, doors, pipes and electricity - no installed lights, no real floor, no wallpaper, obviously no kitchen...so you still have to invest a lot more. And you have to keep in mind that there is a huge variety of different houses in Germany, as they come from many different decades...you have cute, crooked "Fachwerkhäuser" that you have to keep in a certain state because they are registered medieval monuments and you can't modernize them too much, you have quite beautiful old houses that look very fancy from the outside but are shabby inside because they need modernization, you have very ugly concrete buildings from after WWII, where they just tried to fill in the gaps left by bombs, and you have fancy designer-houses that no normal person can ever afford, sometimes with very special but not very practical features (like an open sleeping space on a gallery above the living room, or beautiful but dangerous stairways.) Plus, the prices even in the rural areas of some parts are insane, espacially as you have to invest a lot nowadays to modernize the heating system and install solar panels to "survive" the rising energy costs.

[@jacki_00]

Love your videos! I'm from Germany and it's very interesting what you think about it. Also you make me laugh a lot.😂 Thank you! 11:40 it's not even that tiny for German gardens and I think it has a huge backyard because the property has 695m² 13:28 actually it's kinda cheap 😂 21:20 All houses are different here. So for me non of these houses were odd but I understand that it is for you

[@Fenster134]

I'm living in a half-timbered house built around 1436. It's pretty exciting what you can find when renovating such a house.

[@hypatian9093]

Even in younger houses. The one I live in was built a bit over a hundred years ago and they used sheets of the local newspaper as lining paper (Makulatur) - when we tore down the layers of old wallpaper and discovered that, we spent hours with reading the old newspaper :)

[@lemmi1320]

Can an American imagine that there are still inhabited houses that were built before the discovery of America? ;-)

[@KatieLeary]

You got to see a bit of the housing crisis that Germany is currently facing. There are very few (affordable) houses in desirable areas available. My partner and I both earn decent salaries, but we wouldn't be able to afford a house where we are currently living -- maybe in very rural areas we could but then we would have a harder time finding a well-paying job there. Most people under the age of 40 who own houses have inherited the house from their family or received a lot of money from an inheritance to buy their own house.

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

The town of Marburg has a quite popular university. Marburg being quite old has a very nice old town at its centre at the river Lahn attracting quite a number of tourists. The address appeared to me as being a bit outside of Marburg, maybe some little village or just a couple of farms.

[@uliwehner]

that was funny, my wife just asked my last night if we could move back to Germany and specifically to Bamberg. Bamberg is really pretty and "historic". I was born about an hours drive from there.

[@McGhinch]

The last house you looked at was probably built according to older regulations. In many places you have a plat/development plan. Often you could only use a certain percentage of the premises to build the house. Also, the number of floors was often limited. I suspect it allowed for 2 1/2 floors, that is why the top floor is low-ceilinged. But, it has two garages. They are probably small, compared to newer ones. Anyhow, the don't show them so we don't know. Older buildings usually have small kitchens and bathrooms. The floor plan is by far less open. The room with that strange red thing is the boiler room. The room with the chandelier is a lobby on second floor -- you enter that from the staircase. The bedroom with the mannequin is probably a lady's room, living alone for a long time or had a very forgiving husband. The house is solidly built. By looking at it, I suspect red-brick. The stairs and floors look like man-made stone -- fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s. This house is more solid than most houses built in the US. It is also more sound proof inside the house than "all" houses in the US.

[@franhunne8929]

mieten - to rent - Haus mieten - to rent a house 216 $ per square foot - but that also includes a town with public transport (though the ticket costs extra, of course), with less danger of black outs, as the electricity cables are buried, water that is potable, and - what you do not know - Marburg may be a small town, it still has a quite renowned university which dates from 1527. That is older than your country.

[@123batina]

In europe houses can be really expencive depending on location. There is no rule you need to build a house anywhere. If you can build a 4 story building that land instead of the run down house occupying the plot - it is worth millions.

[@hobbyamixd6801]

I bought my house 10 years ago, so the prices were still ok. 130000€ for 120m2 and 640m2 plot. Year of construction 1989, but newly renovated including kitchen and garden shed

[@Edtopia_upcycling_]

18:59 The red thing is an central heating. is powered by heating oil ( diesel) or natural gas.

[@klaus.kinsky3954]

I recommend the Drachenschanze in Altschauerberg. But the house itself is only recommended for demolition 😂

[@alteisenfahrer]

m< house is built in 1663 and big and wonderful, and it was cheap because it needed complete renovation which I am doing myself since aboit 5 years now

[@MellonVegan]

12:40 That's still the cheapest price I'd find in my city (Münster) and just about the only one I could afford with an upper middle class income. Only that here, it'll get you an 80 sqm (half the size of that one) one story building.

[@Rick2010100]

Good houses are usually only a few days online, or the real estate agent sells them quickly to people on his list with people who look for a house. The houses on the oline portals are mostly overpriced and no one will buy them. The new design houses are mostly CAD design examples or Musterhäuser wich are model homes. The model homes show a type of house wich the construction company offers for a certain price, they are real and no paper mache. When the construction company changes their house design after a few years, they build new and sell the model houses.

[@Gigaearl]

I live in a village near Marburg, my house only cost €21,500. Okay, there's a bit of work to be done on it, I've been renovating for 10 years now. The housewarming party is scheduled for 2053

[@callishandy8133]

Sie sind also weit entfernt in einer Gegend wo niemand viel für ein Haus zu zahlen bereit war. 21500 Euro = US $ 23596 bezahlt man für eine Bauruine oder Schrottimmobile. Warum so billig oder preiswert ? Warum greifen keine professionelle Immobilienmakler zu ? Aha das hat einen guten Grund. Hoffentlich geht alles gut und das ohne Boden erhält bald einen stabilen dichten Boden. andernfalls ist das eine Geldgrab. Ich frage nicht wo das Haus ist, wie weir Sie renoviert haben. Auch nicht wie Ihre finanzielle Power ist und wie weit der Ort zur Erzielung eines Einkommes liegt. Ebenso ob Sie lange genug auf kostenlose Hilfe von Freunde zählen können und Finanzspritzen im Zweifelsfall von Eltern und Schwiegereltern kostenlos vercuchen können. Bedenken Sie Sie sind nicht ewig jung und nicht unzerstörbr von dem Lauf der Zeit. Ebenso ist ein Lebenspartner toll und eine Stütze im Leben aber auch nichtendlos belastbar. Hoffentlich geht alles gut und teure Wärmepumpen könne noch einge Jahre im Regl der Industrie herumstehen. Hoffentlich kann noch lange Zeit mit fossilen Heizmaterial meine und Ihre Räume bequem und preislich vertretbar im Winter auf erträgliche Temperaturen gehalten werden und hoffentlich bleibt der Schimmel in den Häusern der Anderen. Es ist noch immer alles gut gegangen. Gratulation zu dem Niedrigpreishaus. Sollte der Boden des Fasses nicht zu stopfen sein, dann trennen Sie sich von einem Faß ohne Boden. Wenn Sie Schwierigkeiten habe das Loch im Boden zu stopfen oder weniger Wasser nachfüllen können als unten herausläuft. Ist das logisch oder sind Sie später ein Sturkopf ? Amüsieren sich über KZbinvideos derehemaligen TV SErie mit den Schnäppchenhäusern. Und denken nach was dort nicht gerade optimal läuft oder wie beschränkt und jugendlich mance Gehirne denken können. Wie ist Ihre Lage heute und wie beurteilen Sie unter der Bettdecke diese für die nächsten Jahre ? Bitte schneken Sie mir nicht Ihre Immobile. Nichteinmal als Rentner gehe ich in eine Gegend wo ein Haus nahezu geschenkt den Eigentümer wechselt. Der Haken ist mir schon zu deutlich und da habe ich einiges an TV Erfahrung und leider an realer Lebenserfahrung machen können. Die Kölner pflegen zu sagen = Ist bisher immer alse gut gegangen.

[@Anson_AKB]

for quick rough estimates you can round area measurements: 1 squaremeter is 10.76 squarefeet, thus rounded between 10 and 11, or yet even quicker: add a zero to the area, eg 450 -> 4850, rounded 4500 and the same rounding can be done for prices when 1€=1.06$ ... 450k € -> 477k $, rounded 450k $ and when area as well as price are rounded, the error is even smaller, eg 450k€/450m2 = 477k$/4850ft2

[@Falk4J]

Our houses come in all materials, sizes and ages. We have houses that are even several hundred years old made of a wooden structure with clay-straw mixed walls. Most houses are made of bricks or the more modern ones of concrete or concrete blocks. Wooden houses are a rare sight to behold though.

[@Gokudo87]

With old houses "Denkmalschutz" might be something to consider, that foreigners might not be aware of. So if you buy one of those really old houses with clay walls, you will be limited to what renovations you can do. There are regulations what types of windows you are allowed to use for example. It's to preserve the original look of the house. That's why to US citizens German cities often look like out of a fairytale with the old houses.

[@blacksilver4711]

Hallo Ryan,ich bin ein echter Berliner Junge (50 jahre alt) ich sehe mir deine Videos erst seit kurzer Zeit an, denke aber das ich jetzt alle gehen habe.Deine ehrliche Art und weise,sowie den vergleich Amerika und Deutschland, finde ich beeindruckend( dieses Wort ist mal wieder Typisch deutsch) umschreibt aber auch das was ich meine.Als wirklich Typisch Deutscher, könnte ich jetzt ewig schreiben, aber ich versuche es tatsächlich mal "kurz und knapp" Alle Videos über Deutschland sind fast authentisch, oft ganz nah dran,wie wir sind. Um uns zu begreifen oder zu verstehen muss man uns besuchen, mal tatsächlich ein paar Tage mit einem Deutschen den Tag verbringen. Denn letztendlich sind auch wir Deutschen sehr verschieden, aber doch irgendwie gleich. Ich bin fest davon überzeugt, das du ein guter Deutscher Amerikaner werden würdest ,und uns so zeigst wie wie Du uns tatsächlich siehst, denke ich, das unser Image durch solche Amerikaner wie du es bist, sehr schnell ins Positive gehoben werden könnte 🙂 . Dankeschön für deine Videos. Wir halten dir immer ein Bett frei 🙂

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

In Australia most new houses are pretty big on small blocks, usually 4 bedrooms with 2 car garage. From the rear of the house to the boundary fence is about 10 feet, same at the front, sides of the house to the boundary fences is 3 feet.

[@KicKandRoll666]

the second house you are looking at, looks so nice because it is only a marketing prospect how a buidl hous can be like. it does not come furnished, it is not even build, they wanna give you a contract to build a house like that. Costs always explode while building and not only does it not come furnished but for everyting you have to probaly pay extra, like having a real floor and not just some raw concrete. if someone really wanna get a useable house with everythign expect furnishing (and kitchen, they are always seperate in germany), i expect the cost to be 50% higher

[@nettcologne9186]

-Houses have basements in Germany..lol -When you cook (and Germans cook every day), the whole house smells like food. That's why many Germans like a kitchen with doors. But the trend is towards having an open kitchen to the living room/dining room.

[@reinhard8053]

Basements were normal but not so in new houses. Many like to spare the money if it is already tight. You need everything else but a basement can be omitted. Not a good trend in my opinion.

[@hypatian9093]

@@reinhard8053 Yeah, basements have lots of benefits. Lots of storage room, which means the floorplan of the house can be smaller (=cheaper). And you can have an utility room there (for the washing machine or freezer) and a hobbyroom. Or a guest room - which you can use yourself during heat waves in summer ;)

[@carinad.3679]

"I find it fascinating what Americans think about German houses. The second house, which appears to be so affordable, is actually a showcase home. This means it doesn't exist in this exact form. It's just an example of how the interior could be designed. When you buy this house, you're only purchasing the shell, without the land, which must be bought separately. As you've noticed, Berlin is very expensive."

[@pakabe8774]

In Germany, prebuilt houses are meant to last at least 70 years (up to 120y) massive builds or stone houses are meant to last at least 100 years (up to 150y). If taken care properly, at least stonehouses can last for centuries (with some modernisations after time).

[@laurafelicis1895]

An hour ago, you couldn't have told me that this video concept would be this interesting to me. But I loved every minute haha I just love looking at houses!

[@MerYeM-gc5me]

thank you for yet another good video 😊 for buying a house here in germany you basically also always can add ~10% of the price on top for different fees. This of course always depends on different factors but it's a little rule of thumb. Berlin is also one of the most expensive areas. Just like every major city in many many countries at the moment

[@Psi-Storm]

Berlin probably doesn't even make the top 5 of most expensive cities. Munich, Hamburg and Frankfurt are definitely more expensive. And then we have Cologne, Düsseldorf or even smaller ones like Heidelberg that are really expensive.

[@d-i-wood8499]

And keep in mind that the furniture is almost never included. The kitchen is not included either. Sometimes you can buy it from the owner (additional costs), sometimes you have to buy a new one.

[@klarasee806]

Berlin - if not Tiergarten or Zehlendorf or the like - is not that expensive compared to a lot of other German regions. Although Tiergarten belongs to the most expensive areas in Germany, it‘s way easier to find a reasonable priced home somewhere in Berlin than somewhere in Munich or Hamburg.

[@julianegner5997]

For any price you find, you have to add 10% for "purchase cost" & taxes

[@K.Reimann]

The first house with a typical broker saying. "Bungalow mit viel Potential" “Bungalow with a lot of potential”. Translated, that means: “A total hovel that would actually have to be torn down and rebuilt.”😂

[@grmpflz]

Ground Floor and 1st floor of our house in Bavaria are from 1650 and still are in a good shape. Only the roof had to be changed once in 1980... . The house is built from field stones and mortar, without a cellar.

[@ankag.2982]

There is one significant difference between german and american housing market - in the US, if you buy a house, apartement, condominium... you have to pay attention about the local taxes. You can end up paying a lot of monthly/yearly taxes depending on the state/area/city that you live in. I have learned, that these taxes vary extremely and can go up to the thousands every month like NYC or a few hunders in some very rural areas. It is not like that in germany. You of course pay property taxes as a house owner, but it does not vary depending on the location/state you are in, but it depends mainly on the size of the property you own. You pay property taxes yearly, I think if you have 500 qm property you pay little less than a 1000 Euros a year in Grundsteuer/Propertytax.(Iam not exactly sure about the numbers, but compared to the US market ist is forseeable and affordable) You pay a Real estate transfer tax when you buy the house but only once and that can be quite a lot. So maybe you pay a high price on the house and a lot of fees and taxes for buying it, but do not end up paying many thousands of Euros in yearly taxes every year.

[@GeschichtenUndGedanken]

Right. It depends on where and why. At the moment you would need to invest a lot. Just don’t rush it too much. “Furnished” means you will have into consideration that some houses will rip a hole into your pockets and things like that will make you think “why didn’t we think about it later. Are there schools for the kids, will you rent it as a kind of investment, how are you planning to go to your job, are there opportunities to work out? Things like that. Real estate agents will point out the benefits and have a tendency to overdo it “a little” . And yes, people are looking for a home and most of them won’t want to be the founder of a place they possibly could name: „Drive Trough-Bed & Breakfast. All bucks included!“

[@LinardsZ]

Just so you know Me and my brother at age of 10 and 8 where jumping from 2nd floor height into 1 meter of snow we also climbed trees around 4 to 5 meters height also but that is absolutly safe for children our grip strength was better then.

[@sandrasauerkraut8741]

„It‘s only 2 dollars and 40 cents, folks!“ 😂

[@philippkern9031]

19:10 that's an storage room combined with the heating room. The red thing is the central heating unit. 21:03 it is the classic plastered brick i'd guess.

[@anunearthlychild8569]

The room with the big red thing was probably either the basement or the boiler room. That was the big red thing - the heating system. 😉 If the room is so large, it is usually also used as a laundry room and storage room. When it comes to costs, you forget that Germany is small and land prices can be very high for building land, depending on the area. For example, the purchase price for a sqm of building land in Berlin can be around 1000 euros, in Munich you can expect three times that. So you would pay almost 2 million euros for the 695 square meters (like in Marburg) in Munich, WITHOUT a house on it.

[@chrisb2942]

The 2nd was just an advertisement and don't look at the price. You most likely would've needed to buy the property on top of it as well as the furnishing like kitchen, bathrooms, floors, stairs all on top. Not to speak the garden, patio, garage.. then you most likely need furniture too. Around 1 to 1.2 million would be a good price for it, I assume.

[@Dr.BenjiBuddy]

Yes, we do love doors... I just counted all doors in my house (interior and outside doors, but not like closet doors). I counted a total of 28 doors. My living room alone has 5 doors. 9 doors in the garage/laundry/office... My hallway has 9 doors which is great for first time visitors 😂

[@junkfoodvegan6198]

There are a lot of newer houses in Germany... well I'd guess a lot of the houses from before the 50's might have been destroyed in a particular event, I'd you know what I mean 😉

[@Muriel_Naumann]

Marburg an der Lahn is a smaller town with a university in Hessen. It has a castle, a famos early gothic church and a beautiful historic centre.

[@ALetsPlay]

Funny how you looked for homes near Bamberg where I was born. The problem with Bamberg is: there are just 80000 inhabitants, but it is a city with university. Also there are with Erlangen and Nürnberg two other cities which also have a university. All cities can be reached easily by train. So houses and flats in these cities are extremly expensive as there are a lot of people who are interested in them (especially students and workers).

[@Mathis240]

19:11 Thats the Basement. Many houses in germany has a basement to store tools, wheels, shoes and so on. The red machine you see there is a oil or gas heating system. The prices of german houses vary a lot of course. When you want a solid and not this old house, then you have to pay a lot more. Some houses are so called "Fertighäuser" or modular built houses. They are not this solid or as well insulated as the more solid ones. Some houses are really old too and get heated up with oil- or gas-heating systems. This houses often are bad insulated or have old and leaking pipes as well. Then you have to renovate them to fulfill the governments energy guidelines. Thats of course really expensive and often costs up to the half of the purchase-price of the house itself. It's really hard for young families to get a affordable house this days, and its doesnt get any easier i guess.

[@87Eiswolf]

We have 1500 m² and living for 230m². We was buy for 110.000€ and built for 300.000€ in Berlin. Now have the house a price of 1.400.000 €

[@e0n2006]

This Bathtub thingy can you get at IKEA for like 15 bucks

[@marcusfranconium3392]

You should watch some of the real estate sites in europe , There is significant price difference between nations and regions .

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

For reference take a look at some houses in the Munich or Hamburg area.

[@florianscholl1256]

In the last house, the red thing, is the boiler/heating Room.

[@toomasargel8503]

12:11 man by 210.000 eyros You get at Estonia ridaelamubox ) only piece of house with 3 bedroom or 4bedroom but not house but aparment. ..or on old no waterclosed and water get on well no inside watersystem at all. 6 bedroom house. Need paint maintinance isolation for 5 F winter etc.

[@madscientist8286]

@01:35 I laughed so hard because you are spilling out them facts that we don't dare to state!

[@rbaleksandar]

The first one you saw literally says "bungalow". Who is insane enough to say a crappy bungalow for 700K EUR, that's another topic. Prices in Germany are getting insane. On average you are looking at something between 5K and 11K EUR (data is from 2022) per square meter (1 sqm ~ 10.7 sqft). Some placed (e.g. Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg) are insanely expensive and this also hits all real estate (both for buying and renting) in the region around. Eastern Germany is cheaper than Western but only if you go in the remote rural areas. The problem is that, just like in the UK, USA and so on, real estate property has been increasing much, much faster than the average income and inflation. Luckily, in Germany many people rent and there are relatively good laws regarding that. But after a specific threshold one always starts asking the question: is it worth giving all that money to a landlord and having nothing in the end plus the chances of getting evicted or is it better to invest in own property. Real estate nowadays is like the bubonic plague. It spreads and it kills anything in sight. Local business struggle to pay rent, people struggle to pay rent, owning a property means taxes and knowing freaking Chinese due to the amount of bureaucratic crap that is poured on you from the government. You have people, who can barely afford rent, while others have multiple properties and live just on that. Most landlords are anything but useful to the economy. The money they get is rarely reinvested into the economy. It ends up abroad and/or in some bank for a long, looong time.

[@KatieLeary]

The first house was in 'Berlin' but in reality a suburb more akin to Brandenburg. Really ridiculous

[@hannah-wj9ot]

It really depends on where you want to live and how popular the area is. My brother and sister in law owned an apartment with a garden but wanted a bigger living space (it was ok as long as the kids were younger) and got their house (or half of a semi detached house) because their neighbours were planning to move to northern Germany and knew my brother was looking. So they sold their apartment to a family with a teenage daughter and bought the place next door . All without these places ever making it on a website or hiring an estate agent. It was all mouth to mouth , a friend knows someone who's family member is looking kind of deal. Of course it sucks if you have to move to a new city and don't have this kind of connections.

[@chaos235]

The way houses are build in Germany changed a lot in the last 20 years. Before that it was straight forward brick building and as noticed very individual. Everyone planned the shape like they think it would be good. More modern houses are beeing build in a more american way and way more standarized. They use more woods for the walls and modular systems to keep the costs down and building time faster. Also there is now a typical setup with a kitchen/living room combination, like what you see in the newer houses in the video. The prices also reduced the number of rooms and the space you have. The same is with Basements, which were very common 20 years before, but today people tend to not build a basement. Diggin in the ground is very expensive and the regulations on how to seal up basements are making it to expansive. Most people will invest that money into other parts, like a bigger garden.

[@reinhard8053]

Kitchen/Living room combo might swing back in the future, from what I've read. You either have lots of smells while cooking or you need a loud fan to suck it away. Doesn't sound like a comfortable way to use the space.

[@sorenwitte7637]

For the conversion rate 1m² is roughly 3.2 ft² so if 100m² is 300ft² plus 20 to 30 so just m² × 3 and add a little bit to roughly get there .

[@uliwehner]

your math is "limping" as we say :) It is easier to just multiply 1m² by 10 to get square feet, since 3 times 3 is 9.... that gets you there easily and close enough.

[@Frahamen]

Neighbors usually don't care about what's in someone else's garden. Although they might have an issue if you use toxins to a job you can easily do with your hands.

[@Sandfrau]

Marburg is one of the bigger cities in Hessen and like people said within an hour of Frankfurt. And the university and medical stuff is big in Marburg and Gießen (right next to Marburg). If you looking for creeper houses you have to look in in east Germany. In Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt or Thüringen.

[@m.maxham6629]

The last house was a multiple family house. Meaning it is set out to have one stairway and on each level there would be an apartment for one family.

[@KamillaMirabelle]

A reason for the price difference, is how house are build Germany other places in Europe, is that they are made to last much, much longer.. and as you mentioned in another video a big tree (like +50 years oaks) would only do local damage to the roof maybe a brick or two.. Another reason is that people don't move that much

[@hobbyracer2814]

a population of 80k in a town or city may not be much for you, but for someone who was born on an island with it's biggest town having a population of 14k it is alot

[@martinweimann438]

about the grass in the driveway: its meant to be like that, its called rasengitterstein. its designed to let rainwater soak in the ground. by the way, spraying weedkiller on driveways is not allowed in germany, it could cost you up to 50.000€.

[@JoSchn]

13:29 Marburg is a so called Student City. There is a Castle (Burg) on top of a Hill, the landcape is wonderfull. Very high living quality compared to Berlin / Hamburg / Cologne. Nice Landscape!

[@matthiasnieuwenhuisen7181]

18:54 It's the utility room and the red thing is the heating. Probably in the basement or partially underground.

[@callishandy8133]

Yes true thes red thing is the centralheater. I think oil or maybe a gas heater. Attention the EU law and german law say that the you can not instal from 2030 (or some years later) these heater anymore. Ok maybe legal, but you have to install outside an air to water heat pump = Expensive.

[@valitsenimimerkki]

the second house was for a new house not yet built. On top of the price you need to a lot of money for tiles, wooden floors, kitchen, heating etc...a trick of builders. Seems cheap but comes with only walls.

[@SpacyNG]

About the furniture, appliances and garden stuff, most houses (and apartments) in Germany are basically completely empty. Usually the only things are whats installed right into the house like for example the toilet, shower, maybe the kitchen sink. If you're lucky and mostly for "used"/existing buildings, you might get a bit more of like the whole kitchen, but not much more than that.

[@Leenapanther]

I always wonder where that kitchen tradition comes from. It seems so unpractical.

[@mats7492]

MY mom bought her 3 room apartement in the city center for 150k Euro in 2006.. its 600k now! There is essentially NO market for pre-owned houses in germany.. the concept of "moving your way up" to different and larger houses through buying and selling doesnt exist! People that buy or build a house live there until they die, so for decades usually and only after they die the house get sold and only if the heirs dont move in which happens often. the last house house is a perfect example. i bet it belonged to an old lady (because of the dolls and design) and now shes died so the house gets sold.. cookie-cutter houses arent really thing because of that. if im gonna buy a house for that price that im gonna live in until i die i want one that is exactly likei want it to be

[@McGhinch]

The house in Marburg: applying the same construction standards, how much would it cost in the US?

[@ArkainShiva]

You were right to say, people don't move very often. In Germany for example the concept of a "starter house" where you buy/build your first house that is rather small, but you plan on moving to a bigger house eventually doesn't really exist. People usually buy "their house" right from the getgo and live there until the end of their lives. That doesn't mean people don't move at all. My dad for example is considered rich and he moved twice in his life, once when I was born, so I grew up in a large house, and once 5 years ago (I'm 32 now) to a smaller house that's more affordable. But my dad isn't the norm.

[@kingofmontechristo]

Compared to American homes, German houses may be considered less aesthetically appealing, typically smaller with less open space, smaller yards and garages. They tend to come with a higher price tag, despite the potentially higher income in the US. However, they are known for their efficiency and durability. Each person must make their own judgment about what matters most to them. It's worth noting that Germans often cope with the situation through saying that German houses can withstand tornadoes while American houses can't. 😄

[@wolfgangpreier9160]

Thats a easy one. There are no tornadoes in Germany...

[@kingofmontechristo]

​@@wolfgangpreier9160 you are a very smart person. Avoid mentioning that loudly in Germany, or you may find people countering with arguments like, "but the US experiences school shootings and lacks healthcare," instead of acknowledging that American homes are much better suited for raising a family, despite their shorter lifespan.

[@Engy_Wuck]

@@wolfgangpreier9160that's an old myth. There are tornadoes, quite a few of them even. To mitiate the effect of everyone having a smartphone these days (and therefore better documentation) have a look at "Tornadoes in Germany" from "Atmospheric Research" Volume 56, January 2001. They found 517 reported tornadoes in germany up to the year 2000 and indications that maybe one third werde reported. The main difference to the US: the highest reported ones were F4 category, but F5 are rare even in the US.

[@wolfgangpreier9160]

@@kingofmontechristo "acknowledging that American homes are much better suited for raising a family" yes, true. American houses are made of wood and their windows do not open and their doors do not close. They are mode for about 100 years. American houses are much cheaper and can be rebuilt much faster when the tornadoes hit. Much better than the german homes which are made of brick or concrete, sometimes with the help of some massive wooden beams, have windows to be opened, no HVAC which induces asthma and permanent sniffles and where the doors must be opened manually. They are made for about 1000 years. German houses are rarely being rebuilt because there are no earthquakes, termites, floods or tornadoes in Germany. And only few cockroaches or rats. I must admit rats were a problem in medieval times when there was no canalization. But the've learned in the last 500 years.

[@dark__minecrafterkingmaste4645]

I think my house is Old to yours, mine is nearly 340 years old an btw I live in Brandenburg (Gemany, Brandenburg, Finsterwalde) and it has 2500 m²

[@JohnDoe-us5rq]

A absolute pro with having all those doors is when frying food the smell stays in the kitchen 😃

[@yvi2335]

If you buy or build a house in germany and if you care about it, you know that minimum the next 3 genertations of your family can live in, its a investment for minimum 100 years, if you do it right. And be carefull, we have two frankfurts in germany :D one at the Main river and one at the Oder river this was the one at the Oder 😊

[@TwinPeaksIndustries]

Our house was bought by my grand-uncle in 1968 for about 250.000 Austrian Schilling, equivalent to about 93.000€ today. Thats for a 300m² house and 1300m² of land. Today you'd pay at least half a million for something this size

[@snowjaeger6113]

The price quoted for the second house didn’t even include a cellar or even foundation. It says Ausbauhaus, meaning once you’ve got the foundation done all you get is four walls and a roof, not even windows, doors, rooms, sanitary installations or a kitchen. And keep on dreaming about that pool and landscaping.

[@G2.Eirena]

that big room was the heater-room and the red thing was a central heating.

[@biancaj.d.148]

Marburg is a small town, BUT it has an university, really nice infrastructure and it belongs to the Frankfurt am Main area... People are working in Frankfurt and travelling by train to live in Marburg... There is a beautiful little river to Swim in the sommer, a castle, a really beautifull old inner city and a lot of history... I would estimate that Marburg belongs to the pricier countrysides in Germany. While Biedenkopf (20km away) or Weimar Lahn (10km?) are waaaaaay cheaper, due to way less infrastructure and even smaller villages...

[@friendlyreptile9931]

81k residents is not a small town for german standards :D

[@naraseth]

Funny to see the German house market from another pespective. The last house was really a weird one, even from a German perspective. What might be interesting to consider when looking at prices in rural areas is that rural in Germany and in the US mean two very different things. Bc Germany is much smaller with way more inhabitants per km² living in a rural area still means that the next big city isn't very far away. There are also grocery stores, schools and doctors reachable by foot or in very rural areas by car/bus in under 10-15 minutes. It's more comparable to the suburbs in the US. Thanks for your content, it's really entertaining and I love to see American-German content without talking one or the other country down.

[@Dschonny]

If you want to see houses where people live in, have a look at AirBnB ;-) And talking of rural... there's a big difference between rural in Germany and rural in the US. The US have roughly 3-4 times the population of Germany while having almost 28 times the landsize, so the overall population density is about 7 times higher. Then see that our biggest city has roughly 3.8 million people, and there's only four cities having at least 1mio citizens, compared to the US where NY alone has a quarter of ther german population living in one city, this density factor even grows in rural areas. There aren't many areas where the population density is really low so you see single houses with distances greater than 1000y between plots. Those will mainly be found in northeastern germany, the state called Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MVP) has the lowest population density. In Brandenburg, the state around Berlin just south of MVP the density is only slightly higher. If you take into account that theres a large what we call Speckgürtel (translates like Ring of Fat, the fat that tends to set onto your hips when you get old and lazy but here means the area around a big city where wealthy peole tend to move to) around Berlin with a relatively high density, then northern Brandenburg, a bit away from Berlin, is probably the most rural area you will find in Germany. Have a look at Google Maps in satellite view and compare this to like your middle west states... yes, it's rural, but still densly populated compared to some us areas...

[@snowjaeger6113]

If you buy a house in Germany, you are unlikely to resell it that quickly. Depending on the state you live in you pay between 5 to 10% of the houses value in transaction costs alone. So the idea of a starter home, as it is common in the US is not feasible in Germany. If you want to convert square meters into square foot (idiot unit) multiply it by ca. 11 (so 150 m² = 1650 ft.²) Also, kitchens and bathrooms in the US are pretty simple compared to Germany: US kitchens usually don’t have fully integrated appliances and they still cook with gas instead of induction. Bathrooms in the USA often don’t even have wall-hanging toilets. When comparing the number of rooms, in the US, you count bedrooms, in Germany, you count actual rooms: The living room, counts as a room in Germany. A house with a 600 m² property isn’t considered small in Germany, we can’t afford the urban sprawl the US has. Where is in the US he would have a mortgage for a house, in Germany you would get a hypothec, so the terms and conditions and titles are very different too. Etc… there are so many differences between properties in the US and Germany, this list could go on and on…

[@Moonfog_PSN]

Please more from that kind of content ❤

[@jodibraun6383]

The quality of German houses compared to North American houses is awesome. The houses there *sometimes* don't look like much on the outside, but inside they're very often gorgeous. They feel so sturdy. They're built of concrete for the most part, so noise is muffled between rooms, which is great. And wait till you get a load of the shutters! Omg, sleeping in a perfectly darkened German bedroom is nothing short of blissful.