Floor plan options single-family house 130-150 sqm, 1.5 stories, hillside location

Along the street it is about 21m.

You need the provider whose standard covers most of your wishes.
Every encouragement costs.
The less often something is installed, the more errors creep in.

If you manage to get along with the Clou selection, you have a house with a good price-performance ratio.
We would not have managed that, and very quickly nothing remains of the promotional house.

The standard of the normal range at Rensch-Haus was good and valuable a few years ago. We would have managed with that.
Friends of ours built with Albert Haus, only choosing the standard. Also not bad. There are companies with good standard equipment.
As a general statement, the claim that the interior always needs to be upgraded is not accurate.

The statement that you always have to upgrade the interior doesn't generally apply.

That was referring to "such providers," meaning Economy - of course, you don't have to, but the aforementioned things would be important to us - and that's why the 100k-150k price difference to providers who already fully cover our wishes in their standard doesn't come about. But basically, of course, it's a good point that we need to consider - building as close as possible to the way the provider already has it in their standard.

... the above-mentioned things would be important to us - and yet the 100k-150k price difference to providers who already fully cover our wishes in the standard does not come about.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

I advise against building "otherwise smaller": enlargement operations are significantly easier to carry out than reduction operations. It is better to plan only what you need (and never based on the full budget) and then "if necessary" treat yourself to more, if there is still money that must be spent before it goes moldy. "Slimming down" drafts (especially in small increments) regularly leads – as you can marvel at here several times a week – to discomfort everywhere (and ultimately the "study" ends up as a coat dump because the wardrobe had to be shrunk).

If you have the impression that the Holzer are generally cheaper than the Steiner, then you have been successfully misled. You best bypass the cost-driving sales overhead by excluding the big names of any construction method. Controlled residential ventilation is preferred in the standard because it is easier to omit than to squeeze in.

The architect's house does not have to be a designer house, even type houses (or as Gabriele's favorite Heinz calls them, "system architecture") can be built better and not more expensively with an architect. I would not have recommended it to you if I expected an additional cost position overall. This has less to do with your individuality than with that of your plot. Adapting a flat plot design to a sloping plot alone costs money for which you could also get planning and implementation quality*. What do you mean by "the further organization"?

"But the development is supposed to run directly to the street via the basement" – that is precisely why I complain when you let it run "in a roundabout way". The straighter and the less front yard meters you waste on the path from civil engineering to the house entry, the better.

*) I should perhaps extend my cellar rule in such a way that, similar to a cellar, if you need it it always costs the same whether built or not; this also applies to the architect: basement living space that is not compensated "above" causes additional costs just as L-blocks instead of cellar rooms do. And where the draftsman is demanded like an architect, he also does not cost less. Apart from that, an architect is roughly "self-supporting" as he recoups a large part of his fee in detailed planning, tendering, and construction supervision.

The price difference is often in the fine print.
With us, there was almost nothing left for the builder to do (apart from the slope) and even the building insurance for the first year after moving in.
Compare the construction service descriptions.
You will be surprised how many small things add up to large sums. In addition, with builder's scope you not only have to pay, you have to coordinate. Logically, the service is included in the price and must be paid for.

Who carries out the work?
- own construction team
- subcontractors consisting of established, well-known trades companies (e.g., at Rensch-Haus)
- subcontractors, namely the cheapest one who participated in the tender

Construction manager? Yes, no, maybe? To what extent is the construction manager involved and knowledgeable?
There are construction managers who only know the site from the phone because the client called, there are construction managers who have everything under control and coordinate the way you imagine it. Our construction manager was known before signing the contract, was present at the sample selection, created the execution plans, was always on site for inspections, walkthroughs, when new craftsmen arrived, etc.

The price range usually does not come from the owner being able to afford a new Porsche with every house. More is offered.
Whether the extra is worth the money to you is another matter. Therefore, compare carefully - which is unfortunately very difficult.

Architect. A sales consultant adjusted a show house very well to us, to the slope, to our wishes. However, he said very clearly, if you want it that way, go to the architect. If you do not, we have to add a basement. We did not want a basement, we wanted a living basement.