KfW 40 and KfW 40 Plus are worthwhile!

Since April 2016, there have been interesting changes at KfW Bank for sustainable construction: Houses in the "KfW 40" or "KfW 55" efficiency house standard will in future receive an interest subsidy of €100,000 instead of €50,000, and the subsidy will double as a result. In addition, the KfW 70 house will be completely removed from the funding pots of the L-Bank and KfW-Bank because it meets the statutory ENEV standard.
A PlusEnergy house, which corresponds to a "KfW 40 Plus", has a huge financial advantage in the future compared to an EnEV house. For a single-family house with one residential unit, it can be up to 100,000 € savings in 20 years. With houses with more housing units accordingly more. It is therefore worth talking to the financing bank and comparing KfW40 with the normal EnEV (KfW70).

Especially the construction of houses in the KfW 40 and KfW 40 Plus efficiency house standard is currently worthwhile as never before. For example, the L-Bank for KfW 40 gives a loan amount of € 100,000 at 0.75% interest and a repayment subsidy of € 16,000.

Further there is e.g. from the L-Bank the interest-reduced credit ".Living with a future" and from the KfW Bank the low-interest loan "Home ownership financing“. For an efficient heat pump, there is a further € 4,000 grant from BAFA when building a PlusEnergy house.
The new funding conditions at a glance:

Low-interest loans from L-Bank and KfW-Bank (L-Bank: €100,000 for 0.75% and redemption subsidy €11,000 per residential unit, KfW Efficiency House 40 Plus 16.000 €)
Living with a future of the L-Bank (approx. 32,000 € for 1.1%)
KfW home ownership financing (€50,000 for 0.9% for 5 years or 1.4% for 10 years)
BAFA heat pump subsidy for effective heat pumps with € 4,000

Bottom line, you get about:

For one residential unit: € 182,000 subsidised and
at KfW Efficiency House 40 => 15.000 € subsidies,
at KfW Efficiency House 40 Plus => 20.000 € subsidies
For two residential units: 282,000 € interest subsidised and
at KfW Efficiency House 40 => 26.000 € subsidies,
at KfW Efficiency House 40 Plus => 36.000 € subsidies

You can find examples of houses and housing estates in PlusEnergy construction under:
http://sdg21.eu/tag/plusenergiehaus or on www.plusenergie.siedlungen.eu

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Published 25. January 2018

City of Cologne reintroduces municipal right of first refusal

Housing to be created through more effective development of building sites

The City of Cologne has revoked its waiver of the exercise of the municipal right of first refusal with effect from 1 February 2018 and announced it in the Official Gazette of the City of Cologne. At the same time, the City of Cologne informed the Cologne Land Registry, the Cologne Chamber of Notaries and the Federal Chamber of Notaries of the revocation of its general waiver. The City of Cologne has thus cleared the way for an important legal instrument to secure its urban planning. The aim of the municipal right of first refusal is the more effective development of building areas, which in particular serves the creation of affordable housing in the still tight housing market in Cologne.

The right of first refusal is available to the city according to the legal requirements, for example, for the purchase of land

in the area of application of a development plan, insofar as it concerns areas for which a use for public purposes has been determined in accordance with the development plan,
in a reallocation area,
in a formally designated redevelopment area,
in the area of application of a land use plan, insofar as it concerns undeveloped areas in the outer area, for which a use as residential building land or residential area is shown according to the land use plan, or
in planned or unplanned areas that can be built on primarily with residential buildings, insofar as the properties are undeveloped.

The City of Cologne can thus designate by statute areas in which it has a right of first refusal in areas where it is considering urban development measures in order to ensure orderly urban development.

Insofar as the legal requirements for exercising the municipal right of first refusal are not met or the city does not intend to exercise its right of first refusal, it will issue corresponding certificates to the parties involved. Fees ranging from 61.69 euros to 89.11 euros will be charged for this. The contracting parties or notaries are now required to submit purchase agreements on real estate transactions in the Cologne city area to the responsible Office for Real Estate, Cadastre and Surveying for examination of the right of first refusal. The City of Cologne has a period of two months from the submission of complete documents in which to check the existence of the pre-emptive right and to execute its possible exercise.

On 18 May 2017, the Council of the City of Cologne decided by a majority to reintroduce the right of first refusal after the city had waived it since 1995.

Source: PM from 17.1.2018
www.stadt-koeln.de/...stadt-fuehrt-kommunales-vorkaufrecht-wieder-ein

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