The search for a dream property is anything but an easy task, at the moment. Especially in big cities property prices have gone up significantly. And if you take part in an openly accessible property visit, you will quickly realize that you are not the only potential customer. As soon as 30 interested persons have submitted their application, 29 of them will come away empty-handed. Aquiring your own four walls could turn out to be a difficult and rocky road.

With this article I would like to give you some good tips, which will help you in your search for property. By following this advice, you are going to convince some of these salespersons or estate agents about yourself.

Preparation

Internet is the very first contact point. Day after day, on various portals you can see property advertisements. In addition to these offers, you have the possibility to enter your search criteria and requests on these platforms. By doing this, you will be informed immediately, as soon as a new property is posted online which meets your requirements. This process of beeing informed is extremely important. Just remember, as it is often the case: You have called the estate agent or the salesman, and the responsible person told you straight away that the property in question has been already sold. At a time when potential buyers purchase real estates without inspecting them, time is a crucial factor.

A lot of properties do not officially come onto the market, but are sold underhand through relations and contacts. So it is best, if you use social contacts and media. For example, talk to your collegues, hang up some flyers at your fitness studio and post your request on Facebook, Instagram and on other social media platforms.

As soon as you have found the right property, you have to overcome further obstacles. That´s why, act quickly! Contact the estate agent or salesperson via mail right away, or additionally call the responsible person. You have to bear in mind: You will not be the only prospective customer. Quite often it has been the case, that the advertisement has been withdrawn and deactivated right after its publication, due to an extreme amount of requests.

Keep at it!

If you managed to get an appointment for viewing, please do not forget to bring a written financing confirmation with you. This indicates to the estate agent or salesperson an uncomplicated sales processing. And it also proves, you have not only just been interested in purchasing property since yesterday; on the contrary, you have dealt intensively with this issue.

The team of FinanzierungsExpert will provide you with advice and assistance in procuring a written confirmation. Should you indeed receive the acceptance for the desired property, it has to go quickly. In some cases, for example, the responsible salesperson needs the sale proceeds for requiring new property. Should all necessary documents have already been submitted to our financing experts, the follow-up processing will go much faster.

These two things, having a financing confirmation and leaving a good impression, are the determining factors. As similar to a job interview you should previously prepare appropriate questions, you whish to ask the property agent or the salesperson. Any person showing a great deal of interest in the property concerned, will make a much better impression. Not only figures and facts play an important role, but also sympathy; especially among private salepersons, who want to make sure, the estate will be in good hands.

Keep at it!

Of course, the tips listed above cannot guarantee full success. You could be as well-prepared as you like, but you finally won´t be selected for getting the desired property, because of the high number of applicants. So if there is no success, after searching for months, you should perhaps reconsider your criteria regarding property. In some cases, it is absolutely sufficient to do without a bathtub or balcony. Under any circumstances, stay continuously in touch with your estate agent and keep your eyes open and ears tuned.

The FinanzierungsExpert team – your strong and reliable partner – whishes you a lot of success  when it comes to construction financing.

 

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The building permit is a specific document, issued by the building supervisory authority. It proves that a new construction or a rebuild does not violate public law regulations. Having in mind, that every federal province hat its own regulation about the location of construction, you should previously obtain informations from the responsible building supervisory authority.

In that respect, the building permit is the basic requirement for starting your new construction or reconstruction project. In order to get a building permit, those who are entitled to perform on construction projects, such as architects/civil engineers or supplier of prefabricated houses, have to submit the building application.

The necessary papers could be different in each federal province, so you have to look into its construction regulations. The following documents are always absolutely essential: Site plan (at a scale of 1:500), construction drawings (at a scale of 1:1000), informations about generating water supply and water disposal, specifications about statistics, heat insulation and noise protection, calculations on the built-up property area and the undeveloped part, evaluations on the total floor area/the surface area and on the living space/effective area. Furthermore, a listing of shell construction costs and of total expenses as well as a data entry form about construction activities are to hand in. Finally, you have to collect signatures from the owners of the neigbouring properties. They cannot stop the building permit. However these property owners have the option to file a suit against your construction permit, at the administrative court. That´s why it is recommended to obtain their consent.

The above mentioned documents, along with the building application, have to be submitted at the municipality. Afterwards, the corresponding body will turn the building application over to the building supervisory authority. Within ten working days, this authority has the obligation to check, if the application is complete. In case of incomplete data, the applicant will be granted a period of time in which he can hand in the concerning papers. Should the applicant not meet the deadline, the request will be rejected. At best within ten working days, you receive a confirmation about the complete proposal, including the date on wich the request will be decided.

From the date of receipt, the building permit is valid for three years. Please note, that this permission has to be shown at the building site, when there is an inspection. Otherwise the responsible supervisor will set a time limit of three days for submitting the missing building permit. At worst, he could issue an order to stop the whole building project. In the light of the above, construction work can only take place, when you hold this essential permit in your hands. Otherwise, there is the threat of fines or the building site could even be demolished completely, because a building permit cannot be granted afterwards.

Additional requirements concerning the construction project:

Two weeks before finishing the shell of buildung, the building supervisory authority is to be contacted, so that those responsible take appropriate measures for the acceptance of the construction site. Apart from this, you have to inform the building authority, two weeks before completing the whole construction. In addition, on the day of acceptance you must show a confirmation paper about the safe usability of the exhaust system, issued by the chimney sweeper. 

If your construction differs substantially from the development plan, from town charter or rather from building regulations, a request is to be made. Generally, this kind of application is very difficult  and can only be approved, as long as there is no harm to public interest.

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By law enactment, child benefit for building – a government grant scheme to support families building homes – was introduced, on 05 July 2018. It aims to support young families to create their own homes, by supplying cash subsidies.

Does every family obtain child benefit for building?

Not at all, child benefit for building is attached to special conditions.

Under what conditions does a family receive child benefit for building?

Families with at least one child, being under 18 years of age and living in the same household, who have an annual taxable income of maximum 75.000,00 Euro plus 15.000,00 Euro per child, are eligible for this kind of child benefit.The subsidy amounts to 1.200 Euro, per child and per day, and is granted for the period of ten years.

For a better understanding: Each family with one child is allowed to have a maximum annual taxable income of 90.000 Euro and obtains a subsidy of 12.000,00 Euro, in total. In case of a family with two children, there is a maximum tax revenue of 105.000.00 Euro, and the total grant amounts to 24.000,00 Euro.

Apart from these financial conditions, two more criteria are to be met: The applicant aquires property for his own use, and besides, he does not own any further real estate assets. Child benefit for building is not a credit, but a subsidy, applied for through the KfW Bank.

When will the construction child benefit be paid out?

Child benefit for building is paid out in annual instalments. After a positive review of the supporting documents by the KfW Bank, the first grant instalment shall be transferred to the applicant´s account. You will find the specific date of payment on the confirmation paper which you have previously received from the KfW Bank. The further grant instalments will be remitted in the following nine years, always in the same month of the first payout.

Can you apply for construction child benefit retroactively?

Yes, indeed. Construction child benefit can be applied for retroactively, from 1st January 2018 on. That means, when you build or buy a house, in 2018 or later, you can submit your application. At the latest within six month after moving into residential property, you can make a request.

 

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Whenever you would like to build a house or buy a property and you need a financing solution for this purpose, there is no way to avoid the following institution: The SCHUFA (a protective association for public credits) is a data collection point. Informations deriving from telecommunication agreements and from the trading and financing sector are recorded there. Most of these entries refer to instalment credits, real estate loans and to current accounts. Furthermore, negative issues such as arrest warrants or inability to pay are reported and registered there. In doing so, the SCHUFA does not verify that the stored records are correctly drawn up. Negative entries have an impact on the SCHUFA scores and they affect upcoming credit decisions or condition negotiations at the banks.

What exactly is the SCHUFA score?

The SCHUFA score is an internal credit score issued by this protective association for public credits, arising from the data of which it has been notified. That kind of score is expressed in percentage and it is supposed to assist loan providers on issues relating to creditworthiness. In case of a high score value, nothing speaks against awarding a loan from the SCHUFA´s perspective. In this context, it is important to be aware of the following facts: The existence of several registered current accounts or of listed loan condition requests has already a negative impact on the SCHUFA score. Therefore, please have in mind, that less is more. If you always serve the existing instalment credits on time, nothing stands in the way of a good score value. And if you are unsure, whether there could be negative entries at the SCHUFA, you will have the opportunity to make a free retrieval at the SCHUFA, once a year. Should negative facts been listed there, you will have the option of discussing openly this issue with your agent, and in doing so, you could explain how all this happened. In case of a financing application, the banks will regard such kind of openness as positive. You don´t need to worry at all that negative records could be saved forever and ever. For each negative entry at the SCHUFA, there is a specific deletion period. Once it has expired, the respective record will no longer be evident.

It makes absolutely sense doing a checkup at the SCHUFA, from time to time, in order to make sure that entries have been erased where required, and to act quickly in case of incorrect records. Should wrong informations be registered at the SCHUFA, you have the right to have it deleted immediately. This claim must be reported at the SCHUFA without delay, in written form along with the relevant documents.

 

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Nowadays, fixed-interest rate periods with a term of 15-30 years are anything but individual cases. Needless to say, the more the amount of liability increases, the more expensive interest rates become. But at times of low interest rates, there could still be very attractive conditions. For customers who want planning security this might just be right for them. Nevertheless, is it really advisable to be bound to one interest rate for such a long time? In future, Is it possible that the interests will fall?

In this context, Paragraph 489 BGB (German Civil Code) comes into play:

There is no question that banks calculate the returns of the agreement concluded with the customer. Of course, they have the right to do this. However, after ten years have passed, clients are entitled, by the German Civil Code/paragraph 489, to cancel any loan agreement with a term longer than ten years, in whole or partially. This procedure is free of charge. Though a six-month period has to be met. This time limit of ten years starts the day, after your loan has been paid off in full. For example in case of financing a new building, loan will be paid out step by step, in line with the progress of the construction. Since the final instalment is due and your loan has totally been retrieved, on the day after the ten-year period, it is in force.

To what extend do you benefit from that? Effectively, you are bound by the loan agreement, only ten years and six month. As the case may be, you can restructure your debts by the use of a loan at more favourable conditions. In case the interest rates have risen, you can be pleased about that and in doing so, you can allow to continue the contract. Hower, should you have liquid resources in the meantime and you would like to use them for loan repayments, you can give a notice of termination in part, concerning this amount. Finally, you can use this sum as redemption.

As you can see, being up to date with legal issues, „being informed about paragraphs“, can be quite useful. Do you have any questions regarding this topic? Please feel free to contact our financing experts. They are really glad to assist you on this matter.

 

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