Which is better, buying a house or an apartment?

Apartment-style residence was originally imported, which is more economical and practical than single-family villa. Apartments in early big cities were high-rise buildings, and each floor had several single-family suites, including bedroom, living room, living room, bathroom, kitchen and so on. At that time, it was mainly used by middle-income senior staff and government civil servants. Some of them are rented by Chinese and foreign businessmen and their families in hotels for a short time. The early apartment houses in China have already possessed the embryonic form of modern urban unit houses. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, some big cities built apartment buildings with European and American styles, such as Broadway mansions and seaside apartments. China's housing construction began with the experience of Soviet Union in 1950s, and took many detours. This kind of residence built at that time was characterized by a unit with many rooms, usually 3~4 rooms; Large area, each room 14~ 18 square meters; The clearance is as high as 3~3.4 meters, and the kitchen is fully functional. However, this kind of residence does not meet the living standards and apartment types in China. Later, it gradually evolved into a living mode in which several rooms shared a kitchen. At present, in the 1950s, this large-room apartment has been eliminated from the architectural design form. However, due to its early construction, high level of municipal facilities and public facilities, and most of them are located in the city center, there is still demand in the housing market. This kind of residence has a large indoor space, and its functions can be enhanced through indoor decoration. In recent years, the design of apartments built in China has been greatly improved to adapt to the national conditions of China.

2. Modular residence

The apartment (staircase) is one of the most widely used residential buildings in China. The biggest difference between this kind of residence and the corridor residence is that there is only one staircase on each floor, which can serve 2~4 households (one staircase on each floor of the large-depth residence can serve 5~8 households), and residents enter the entrance door from the staircase. If the residential design is point, the residents on each floor are distributed around a staircase; If the plane of the house is a strip (slab) design, the strip house can have multiple stairs. Whether it is one staircase with two households or one staircase with three households, the control area of each staircase is called a "residential unit". Therefore, the multi-storey residence with strip stairs is also called "continuous unit residence". Point (pier or tower) ladder residence is also called "independent unit residence". The basic characteristics of the apartment are: (1) Stairs are the center of each floor, and there are fewer households on each floor, and each household is self-contained. (2) The indoor living facilities are perfect, which not only reduces the mutual interference between households, but also adapts to various climatic conditions. (3) Standardized production is possible and the cost is economical and reasonable. (4) Some public use areas, such as stairs, walkways and garbage lanes, are still reserved to ensure neighborhood communication and help improve interpersonal relationships.

Commercial and residential apartment

Commercial and residential apartments can also be called commercial apartments and commercial houses. According to different forms, it can be subdivided into soho, scho, STUDIO and other forms. They are high-grade properties that can be used for living and working. In terms of property rights, it belongs to the apartment type, but it fully has the function of an office building. They are a kind of real estate with great investment value in recent years. The concept of commercial apartment probably appears at the end of 1998. At that time, Jiahuiyuan near Zizhu Bridge used to be an office building. Because of the depressed office market, developers transformed it into a quasi-commercial apartment with upper-level residence and lower-level office, which was favored by growing small and medium-sized enterprises. Later, a number of similar projects appeared in Beijing, but they could not compete with the high-grade office buildings in the region in terms of planning, design and commercial facilities, and they had the main ownership and security guarantee. Soho Modern City was officially unveiled in 2002, bringing people a new concept of home office. Commercial and residential apartments appear with a brand-new look, and the design is as luxurious as high-end office buildings. Business and living facilities also make users feel refreshed. Later, pure business apartments and commercial and residential apartments with "commercial and residential areas" appeared in the market, and the market entered a new development boom. It is predicted that the number of commercial and residential apartments in CBD or Zhongguancun area will be relatively large this year, and the investment in commercial and residential apartments is still a hot spot in the market. The emergence of commercial and residential apartments is the result of market segmentation. As the capital, Beijing is the political, economic, cultural, information and transportation center of the whole country. Coupled with favorable factors such as the sound development of the national macro-economy, China's entry into the WTO and the successful bid for the Olympic Games, many talents have been attracted to Beijing for venture capital. At the beginning of their business, they are small in number, high in liquidity, low in venture capital and highly sensitive to office prices. At this time, commercial and residential apartments with lower prices and better business environment meet the needs of this part of the market. In addition, a large number of small foreign enterprises have entered Beijing, which has also created a huge demand for commercial and residential apartments. As the main demand customers of high-grade office buildings, foreign-funded enterprises have been in a state of stagnation since the 9. 1 1 incident. The demand of large state-owned enterprises is basically saturated because of previous purchases and leases. Therefore, the market demand for high-grade office buildings has dropped significantly, and it is estimated that the price of high-grade office buildings will be lowered all the way this year. The middle and low-grade office buildings themselves are out of date in the market. Not to mention that their commercial facilities can't keep up with the market demand, their facade decoration alone gives people the feeling of "earth". I believe that more middle and low-grade office buildings will be transformed into pure commercial and residential apartments this year. At present, there are about 90 commercial and residential apartment projects in Beijing, with a total construction area of several million square meters, mainly concentrated in CBD and its radiation area, Zhongguancun and Asian Games Village. Among them, the distribution of CBD and radiation area presents the trend of "Liangmaqiao-Dongzhimen-Guo Mao-Guangqumen". Liangmaqiao business district, such as the early Binduyuan, Lihong Garden, Jindao Garden and Li Kang Building, and the recent Intertech Apartment and Shanghai No.1 Center, are typical commercial and residential apartments in this area. Secondly, Dongzhimen area, represented by oriental ginza, has concentrated high-grade commercial and residential apartments such as oriental ginza, Yuanjia International and Zhubang 2000. With the introduction of CBD planning, the investment value of CBD core area is obviously bullish, and the strong commercial atmosphere and mature commercial facilities have created the glory of commercial and residential apartments such as soho Modern City and Youshige. Zhongguancun and Asian Games Village are the birthplaces of commercial and residential buildings in Beijing. In addition to Huiyuan Apartment and Tianchuang Garden, early projects such as Wei Hao Bo, Tianxingjian, Changyuan Tiandi and Yangming Plaza are also commercial and residential apartments located in small and medium-sized growth enterprises. In addition, Jiajing Tiancheng in Wangjing, Jin Huan Apartment in Financial Street and Fenghua Haojing in Cheng Nan are also representatives of the new generation of commercial and residential apartments. It is estimated that the total development of commercial and residential apartments in Beijing in 2003 will be at least 800,000 square meters, and there will be no similar projects in the south of the city. There will be some projects in Xizhimen area in the west, Zhongguancun and Asian Games Village in the north will still be the key areas for development, and the vicinity of Chaoyang Road in the east will become a new hot spot. The reason why small and medium-sized customers choose commercial and residential apartments as office space is nothing more than the low price of commercial apartments, which is completely caused by imperfect policies. As shown in the following table, commercial and residential apartments are entirely the result of developers profiting from the office market by using residential projects. Project planning principles of various projects. Property type, service life, mortgage policy, transfer fee (per square meter), use specification, commercial and residential dual-use building, 70 years, 80%, 20 years, 650-800 yuan commercial building, 70 years, 80%, 20 years, 650-800 yuan office building, 50 years, 65%. At present, the main price of commercial and residential apartments in Beijing is about 8000-9000 according to the office building (high standard), of which the CBD has the highest average price, about 10000 yuan/square meter; Followed by Zhongguancun, concentrated between 7000- 10000 yuan/square meter. This price is much lower than that of office buildings in the same region, and even lower than some high-end export apartments. With the increase of office supply and the decrease of price this year, how to maintain the price advantage will become the key factor for commercial and residential apartments to gain a foothold in the market. The changes of the following factors will play a decisive role in the market prospect of business apartments this year: the perfection of national policies. It is not known whether the government will introduce substantive policies for commercial and residential apartments this year. In case the policy loopholes are blocked, many advantages of commercial and residential apartments will become bubbles. In addition, the control of land resources will also become the main factor limiting the development of commercial apartments. Development of mid-range office buildings and similar products in the same region. Due to the obvious shortage of demand for high-grade office buildings, the development of mid-range office buildings or similar products will definitely increase, which will form direct competition with commercial and residential apartments. Changes in market demand. With the increase of commercial apartment development in recent years, the problem of product homogeneity is becoming more and more obvious. Therefore, how to develop personalized products according to the changes of market demand will be the key to success. The concept of business apartment appeared in 2002 and was basically recognized in 2003. It's not called a business building, but a business apartment. It should be called China Special.

International standardized apartment

In recent years, a new architectural design concept-"international standardized apartment" has attracted more and more attention from the market. The concept system of "international standardized apartment" is a standardized scale to measure whether a residential product meets people's dual needs in living, living and spirit at this stage, including three aspects. The first is the choice of lots. Many examples around the world can prove that the more prosperous the city center (such as CBD), the better the choice of high-grade apartments. Secondly, it is the characteristics of space. The basic apartment type of metropolitan standard should be composed of six bedroom elements: living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, balcony, light and space. A comfortable living space, the above six elements are obviously indispensable. The third is the life culture. In modern apartments, it is also very important to coordinate the indoor environment design with the landscape outside the space. Neighborhood, community, decoration style, furniture and property management have all derived and created new living culture. In view of this concept system of "International Standardized Apartment", Dongjing International, located at the intersection of Pudong Avenue and Shen Yuan Road, as the first practitioner of this concept in Shanghai, regards "one room, one living room, one kitchen, one bathroom and one balcony" as the basic element of apartment design, and at the same time, it is fully daylighting, so that residents can have sufficient light and ventilation. This is different from the existing small apartment in the existing market. In addition, the designer built a "hanging garden" on every fifth floor of four serviced apartments, which fully realized the harmony and unity of garden environment and architectural planning.

What is a commercial apartment?

Commercial and residential apartment, as its name implies, is a product that can be used for business and residence, but there is no such title in architectural terminology, which is an irregular common name defined by people according to the function of the product. Commercial and residential apartments provide a place for small and medium-sized companies and freelancers who work from home. Generally, in addition to providing some living facilities, it also provides broadband LAN, business center, conference room, ticketing center and sufficient parking spaces. Business apartment is a word that is frequently used in the real estate market at present, and its products have also developed from ordinary residential buildings with commercial and residential functions in the past to SOHO with powerful business functions, and then to various types of STUDIO. In addition to self-occupied customers, commercial and residential apartments also have a large proportion of customers as investment.