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Decision aid Financing & costs Austria and Germany

More loan promised than disbursed: reconcile the net disbursement with the purchase requirement

How do I spot a financing gap when the loan amount and the actually available disbursed amount diverge?

Automatically translated – the German version is legally binding. Show original (German)

Published
19 Oct 2026
Applies to
Austria and Germany
For whom
Owners & landlords
Article ID
WX26-P06-0002

In the financing overview a loan amount is shown that seemingly covers the planned requirement. Decisive for your next payment, however, is which amount will actually flow to which recipient. This editorial aid does not replace a contract review. It shows how to make a discrepancy visible before you commit the same euro to both the purchase price and additional costs.

Name each figure according to its function

List separately from the concrete offer: agreed loan amount, intended disbursements, retained or otherwise immediately reallocated amounts and additional payments from your own funds. Do not assume any particular reason for a difference. Ask which item is behind it and whether it is already included elsewhere in your overall calculation.

An overview that only states “Financing €250.000” is too coarse for this. Part of it may, in the assumed payment flow, go to a different recipient. Whether that is actually provided for in the real contract and legally permissible will be clarified in the documents, not inferred from the example.

The hypothetical case

According to the sample contract a household is to repay €250.000. The disbursement statement presented names €246.000 for the intended purchase payment and €4.000 for a separately named item. For the purchase, your own plan is exactly short of these €4.000 if the full €250.000 has been entered there as purchase-price coverage.

The figure is not an asserted market-standard deduction. It merely illustrates the assumptions of this case. The household should ask for an explanation why the €4.000 is used in that way, whether further own payments will arise and what total repayment is associated with the offer.

Link cash flow and cost list

Mark on the uses side which item is already being paid directly from the loan. It may remain visible in the requirement list, but must not be counted again as an uncovered need. Conversely, the financing must not be entered at the gross amount if less than that arrives for the respective use.

A simple control question helps: do all intended inflows of funds and all uses match overall? If a remainder remains, it is named as a free reserve or as an unresolved difference. It does not disappear into a blanket line “incidental costs”.

Decide with the appropriate document

Request a clear disbursement statement that belongs to the current offer. If the amount changes, requirement and reserve are rechecked. An overall affordable instalment does not answer this one-off coverage question. Only when amount, recipient and timing fit together is the payment plan for the intended acquisition fully explained.

Created with the help of AI and editorially reviewed. General guidance only; not individual legal, tax or financial advice. Errors and later changes are possible.