Commercial Housing Cost Control

The cost of merchandise houses have relations with the economic performance of the real estate enterprise directly , and the price of the merchandise houses have an effect on the houses consuming of the large residents, so strengthen the cost control of the merchandise houses is the important contents of the management of the real estate enterprise.Succeed to carry on the cost control of the merchandise houses, we must firstly understand come theories related, such as the theories of value engineering, project management, value chain management, strategy management etc. All these theories have contact with the merchandise houses cost control, and contribute to the valid cost control of the merchandise houses. The theory of the value engineering emphasizes the improvement of the ratio of function to cost, not stresses narrowly to low cost. The theory of project management tries hard for the overall cost control of merchandise houses around the lifecycle of the merchandise houses, not control cost only in some links. The theory of value chain expands the cost control of merchandise houses to the related fields, reaching control the cost of merchandise houses indirectly. The theory of strategy management can think the cost control in a long and developing view, making the effect of the cost control of merchandise houses continual.The real estate enterprises have to follow the objective regulation of the development of the merchandise houses and pay attention to every link of the process of cost control when they carry on the cost control of the merchandise houses. The cost control can be divided into three parts, including prophase cost control, metaphase cost control and anaphase cost control. Prophase cost control plays an important part in the cost control of merchandise houses, and it lasts from the stage of decision-making to shop-drawing-designing. The work of this stage is to establish the target of the cost control by cost estimate, cost decision and cost plan, involving the cost control in the stages of making policy and programming. The metaphase cost control involves the cost control in the stages of bidding, purchasing, constructing, marketing and delivery, have a content of daily cost control and cost check. The metaphase cost control concentrates the main workload of the cost control of the merchandise houses. The content involved is very huge. Daily cost control and cost check is combined with the cost control of these links closely. Cost check must be consistent with the budget to provide related information for managers, insuring the cost control effective.Anaphase cost control adopts cost analysis and cost check, mainly involve the stage of real estate management. The cost analysis of merchandise houses sums up experience, find out shortage to make reference for the future by using the method of the index contrast. The cost check should contact with some prize and punishment system to arouse the enthusiasm of the related person.The life period of merchandise houses is divided into prophase, metaphase and anaphase on the foundation of introducing the related theories in this article. In the view of strategic management, we can refines the idea of cost control in each stage and adopts different control methods aiming at different stages to attain the best control result.The cost control of merchandise houses is a complicated work, involving a huge content. Combined with the theories of value engineering, project management, value chain management and strategy management, we try hard for a high ratio of function to price and the accomplishment of cost control by using cost control in a unitary and long-dated point of real estate enterprises, attain the effect of controlling the price of merchandise houses and improving the profits of real estate enterprises.