How to choose a "good" residential area: four factors affecting the quality of living

For different buildings in the same business district/region, the overall environment is similar, but compared with new houses, on the whole, the living environment and living facilities of second-hand houses are much better. Moreover, each community is different due to different properties, and the explicit cost of the big environment is similar, but many invisible costs are difficult for outsiders to find except those who live in the community.

Remember the following four points when choosing a house:

1. You can find out the big cost. If you are a professional, you can learn more by consulting your peers or asking about the original technical details, but many costs that affect the quality of life and the details of life are hard to find. To put it bluntly, customers can only rely on the experience and responsibility of developers to a large extent. This point, as a second-hand housing community, is easy to understand. And both communities belong to the same developer.

2. The hidden value is more difficult to find in the customer's purchase stage, and can only be felt if you continue to live in it.

For example, the quality of property service, community safety, garden environment including hardware maintenance standards, timeliness, attitude and technology of handling complaints and on-site maintenance, etc. These seemingly trivial things will really affect your mood every day. If you have lived in a community with excellent property services, it is impossible to choose a park (residence) with poor property management.

3. Life groups. Price is a sieve, which determines the quality of the whole owner and your neighbors, and neighbors affect your quality of life.

Don't think this is an alarmist marketing statement. Generally speaking, people who are willing to pay a higher price for a better life have higher overall cultivation and aesthetic level, and their outlook on life and values are closer. I'm not saying how good friends you and your neighbors will become, but at least you may be less disturbed. There will be less Xiong Haizi in the corridor, and no one will row your car with a key downstairs or in the garage. Sometimes these things can't be bought with money.

4. A community is a label. Think back to your experience of talking about a house with friends and colleagues. When a person says "which neighborhood I live in" or "which brand of neighborhood I live in", will your mind flash to label him? This is the long-term invisible value that a community brings to you, which may be good or bad. The formation of this label is mainly mentioned above, especially the characteristics of the owners' group often put the first and possibly the biggest label on the community. As for how much this label is worth, it varies from person to person.

Buying a house is such a big expense, the replacement cost is too high, and it is also important to spend money on insurance. The four points mentioned above, if you are a little unhappy, I ask you, will you continue to live or change houses? Buying a house is not buying clothes. If you buy it on impulse and try it on, throw it away if you don't wear it. But once you buy a house, the cost of replacement is too high. You have to live in a house for at least five years, what's more, many people have a house all their lives. Under this logic, it is a rational choice to spend more money on insurance and minimize all kinds of risks. Moreover, none of the above points can be bought with money, and sometimes you really have to take a chance. Brand is nothing more than improving your winning rate.

In addition, in recent years, I have mastered an important point of view that determines the price of a house: in addition to the core element of location, the decisive factors are mainly the five points mentioned above, which can be summarized in one sentence, just like FMCG-living experience and owner's reputation! Whether it is investment or home occupation, it is very naive to judge the future appreciation space with the initial price. In fact, if you observe or collect some information, you will find that the more expensive the house was sold at that time, the faster it will rise in the future.

(The above answers were published on 20 15-06- 10. Please refer to the actual situation for the current purchase policy. )

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