Building a house or buying an apartment is a stress test for any relationship.

But how are the roles distributed between men and women here?

A representative survey of 1000 private property buyers in Germany on behalf of the financial services provider Dr.

Klein Privatkunden AG to answer.

According to this, real estate acquisition is probably a male domain, if the survey is to be believed.

After all, 80 percent of the male survey participants stated that they had been the trigger for the property search, and 74 percent stated that they had also found the desired property - in each case significantly more than the female proportion.

But even the study's commissioners doubt whether the man actually had the decisive influence.

There, a consultant is quoted as saying that the impetus for your own four walls usually comes from women.

At first sight, money plays an important role.

According to the announcement, 63 percent of men state that they have brought in more capital.

Which is not surprising, because they are usually paid better than women.

But in the new federal states it should at least be more equal than in the old: There, the deposit for the investment will be distributed fairly among both partners, it is said.

Without any concessions

For the financial service provider, however, there is no doubt: "With younger couples, the woman is actually the driving force behind buying property, even if the man then takes care of the finances." Monthly installments are easy to afford even with the usual parental leave models.

The woman almost always takes full parental leave.

As a result, the men contribute the greater part of the financing.

But when it comes to exploring further financing options, women have unconventional ideas or creative concepts ready: for example, who can be approached from the relatives in order to cope with the family show of strength.

In any case, the survey showed that women have become more active in purchasing real estate over the past ten years, even if some investments have been compromised.

But at least 65 percent of all respondents said they had bought their dream property without any concessions.

For the other 35 percent, the number of square meters or the equipment turned out differently than previously desired.

In addition, the clients of the study want to have found out that the men surveyed more often creep the feeling that their partner had to make more compromises than they did themselves. However, this was not confirmed by the women.

They would have made fewer compromises than “man thinks”.