11ant
2023-07-25 18:08:46
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Read up on this in the forum. @11ant will surely add his two cents ;-)
I'm currently unsure whether the OP might have already read my house building schedule (but only partially understood it or took the remark that you can also proceed differently the wrong way):
Our thoughts on the process:
- Finance the plot separately (fixed interest or variable loan), we still need to obtain financing offers.
- Conduct surveying of the plot and soil report on the property.
- Commission an architect for service phases 1-2 to create a preliminary design.
- Using the results of the preliminary design and the plot survey and soil report, obtain offers from house construction companies and simultaneously request a cost estimate from an earthworks contractor (excavation, disposal, etc.) to be able to plan. (I am aware that additional construction ancillary costs count as well, however, I see this as the biggest cost item which I want to plan as best as possible with this step.)
- After confirmation that we are basically eligible for funding, we would decide (after having compared offers in parallel) on a construction company.
- At the same time, carry out the rest of the financing.
[...] Do you generally find this procedure sensible?
On the one hand, I read with satisfaction that someone wants to commission "Module A" and start a preliminary request for offers with its results (and even open to building methods!). That sounds wise so far. Less wise seems to me deferring the clarification of "rock or swamp" to after Module A with the architect instead of before. And I miss how the planning should continue because phase 3 is definitely recommended to be done with (the same?) architect. And it has not yet become clear to me what can still call the funding eligibility into question if the builders themselves are positively confirmed suitable (?)
Just a few questions:
1. Why do you want to have the plot surveyed again?
2. Why phases 1+2 with the architect and then to the house construction company?
3. What do you understand by "house construction company"?
4. Why an earthworks contractor if you are going to a "house construction company"?
5. How do you want to objectively compare offers from "house construction companies"? There is no one in your planning doing a tender.
5. We want to approach the house providers with the preliminary design created in phases 1+2 and have them prepare exact offers based on these floor plans.
I do not know if I have a conceptual error,
If I understand correctly, the municipality has so far only allocated the building plots mentally without the parcels having already been surveyed. Regarding the question of whether the earthworks and shell construction lots should be awarded separately, I would not preempt the architect. The result of the preliminary design is fundamentally NOT suitable for concrete request for offers but only for rough determination of whether the specific building project will be significantly better or cheaper realized in wooden or stone construction. The result of this request round does not always immediately lead to a decision — neither whether wooden or stone, nor whether this particular general contractor or award decision only after tender.
At one extreme (general contractor and wood), the architect only does phase 3 after the resting period, and the GC takes over. At the other extreme (stone and award decision after tender), the architect does the complete "Module B" (and subsequently also C).
Our wish is to build a single-family home with about 130-140 sqm of living space.
That sounds reasonable ...
We want to start building in 1-2 years. [...]
Both (31), employed, wife on parental leave (max. 2 more years), then part-time. We have 2 children (2 years and 1 month).
... that, on the other hand, less so. I suspect the end of parental leave is the reason for the waiting as well as the tipping point in the financing — insofar the waiting is relatively understandable. Absolutely seen, waiting is strategically not a smart idea. What would be the consequence of building with income during parental leave and/or without factoring in the subsidy: thirty square meters less? — or for a while only paved parking strips instead of a double garage?
I would not artificially delay building with manageable compromises; the move-in will happen only when K1 can already walk and K2 is potty-trained. After bark beetles, corona, and Putin, new adversities will appear to blow away the hope for cheaper building. My motto "build now" does not come from nowhere.