i'm really suprised too. Noone in Germany under 25 could get a loan for a house without their family assisting or a large inheritance.
I mean maybe there is some fringe cases of some remote working programmers that can afford a house in a village with the next supermarket being 20 mins by car and the next hospital being 45 mins.
I know right. However this may also be related to different home owner rates in different countries. Germany is at the lower end with about 49.5% (2021), UK in the middle with 65.2% (2018). But I'm not really an expert in that field as owning property is far away from my life.
When my last parent dies, almost half of their property value goes to tax, the rest I'd split with siblings and I'll maybe get close to being able to consider buying my own place
When my last parent dies, almost half of their property value goes to tax, the rest I'd split with siblings
Where do you live of I may ask? In Germany, even assuming a laughably expensive property worth 2 million EUR and without any tax optimizations, with 2 siblings you'd have to pay a bit below 30k EUR in taxes and receive property worth 667k EUR per child. If you got the property worth 2 million only yourself, you'd have to pay around 300k in taxes max.