Cost of a single-family house, where is the market heading?

Why do all prospective builders, both ladies and gentlemen, assume that the general contractor/contractor/prefabricated house provider builds more cheaply than the individually commissioned architect?

Who furthermore represents the interests of the client in all matters, which cannot be expected from the former. At a price of gross €1,800-1,900/m2 net floor area including incidental construction costs, an architect should be able to create a simple + good = normal single-family house, provided that the plot situation is also unexciting: no slope, no complex existing conditions.

As a bonus, the committed architect also delivers something like "design" or "architecture" or "esprit," something that is completely missing from most GC/contractor houses.

PS. Construction costs rose by about 36% between 2000-2015, not least due to the steadily increasing requirements from the energy saving ordinance.

We are building with an architect and feel very good about it. Even though I don't know yet where we will end up in the end. I am sure... it fits.

I think we will get back in touch with the cheapest provider and the mid-priced provider.

An old business rule states that the cheapest, as well as the most expensive offer, belongs in the "P" file and that negotiations should only be conducted with the providers between these two poles. Rhineland greetings

At least with Weberhaus, I find that a bit exaggerated.

Our price (completion of the house 02/2015) per sqm of living space was EUR 2,113.00. However, for an individually planned house with numerous special features such as:

- Air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating
- Controlled living space ventilation with heat recovery
- Photovoltaic system
- Real wood parquet on the top floor
- Porcelain stoneware on the ground floor
- Residential basement
- Fireplace flue with fresh air supply
- 3rd gable
- Numerous LED recessed spots
- Around 80 additional sockets
- Multi-media package
- Solid maple stairs
...

Am I reading this correctly? The basement is included in the 2,113 euros.

Would mean 338,080 EURO including basement for 160 sqm? That would be cheap...

Interesting what your houses all cost... in Lower Saxony I assume it’s still a bit cheaper. Even Viebrockhaus doesn’t charge 2k € for its houses here. A very rough estimate from an ecologically building architect was around 1650 € / sqm of living space (we didn’t build with her since she specialized in timber frame construction). Builders have settled at 1500 € - 1600 €. Viebrockhaus at 1600-1800 €. We have now ended up somewhere around ~1600 €. Without a basement of course.

An old business rule states that the cheapest, as well as the most expensive offer, belong in the "P" file and that negotiations should only be conducted with the providers between these two poles

Rhenish greetings

Basically, I absolutely agree with you on that, however, the cheapest one has included a certain discount, based on business relationships with our relatives. Without this deduction, two of the current offers would be almost the same.

So far, we have somehow not considered building with an architect...