Whoever builds a house needs a good nerve.

After all, owning your own property is not only one of the largest single investments of your life for many.

There are simply too many tripping hazards between four walls, especially when they present themselves as shells.

Because the craftsman doesn't want to do the same as the site manager or the partner doesn't like you. Because the ordered building material for the only free electrician's appointment in the next few months arrives too late or the onset of winter comes too early for the roofer.

Anna Lena Niemann

Editor in the “Technology and Engine” department.

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But what builders have to shoulder on the way to their own home at the moment seems to exceed the usual level.

Because everything is increasing: land prices, waiting times for skilled workers, the prices for building materials, interest rates, inflation and, last but not least, the demands that the legislature and the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) place on the most environmentally friendly new buildings.