What do you mean by that? Are there other aspects? We also inquired with Kitzlinger Haus, who called for a similar price per square meter. The outcome with them is known. As things stand, I would probably also have a queasy feeling with Büdenbender.
I mean that I always read the name Keitel-Haus in the communities without any connection to truly enthusiastic fans, or even associated with the weakest applause. Kitzlinger – what did I overlook on Roteweste there, except that they were only briefly mentioned once and then did not appear again? – with Büdenbender I would have more than just a queasy feeling that they would fit the price-wise here.
Choose the one for whom your wishes are daily bread.
We have had good experiences with that.
Client family-specific and plot-specific wishes always weigh more heavily in price than the usual and mainstream basics. But above all, experience in implementation is what counts. If wishes are not to become defects, the executors should be accustomed to them.
Small carpentries sometimes build "turnkey" with craftsmen from the region. We had a relatively small home builder and in the standard he had most of the craftsmen whom we would have also chosen freely.
"GU" is not an independent trade – a typical general contractor is a bricklayer and concrete worker or a carpenter who plays first violin himself and is joined by the strings and wind instruments.
Any deviation from the standard is a source of error. Likewise when trades are removed and other craftsmen are brought in.
Building a house is a team sport. Substituting someone who has not trained with the team makes an undesirably tense game with a poor goal result likely.
There are home builders who build freely according to architectural drawings, but there are also companies that only build their type houses. The more expensive ones, I think, all offer according to free architectural services. Whether that is economically wise is another question.
That I consider the (forced by unwise customers!) abandonment of the type house a misdevelopment should be well known by now.
Surely the architect knows who delivers good work regionally. Possibly a home builder is dropped altogether and the trades are tendered individually with the architect?
An experienced and suitable architect (never build a single-family house with a large architecture firm!) knows his "Pappenheimer" both regarding their strengths and weaknesses and regarding their symphonic harmonies as an orchestra; and he will always hold tenders in individual lots, but without exclusion of bidders who bid on multiple or all lots (= general contractor). A general contractor should never be chosen directly, and suitable ones will also be encountered through the tendering process.
then we will also consider local general contractors more strongly. Until now we have tended to the big ones since more information on quality, prices etc. is publicly available there.
With the big names you have the "guarantee" of lack of eye level, meaning you face their marketing and legal departments as a small fry. You have to inform yourself regionally about regional companies (in real life, by word of mouth, and in regional print media). The internet is unsuitable for this; algorithms distort relevance for them as real life is their blind spot. This already starts with architect search: the best for owner-occupied house projects do not even afford a bold entry in the industry directory, let alone web design. Also here, as said, hands off the big names for whom a single-family house is just peanuts.