First, there is a large room for appreciation of low-rise buildings
Why do you say that? Maybe no one knows. In fact, there is a big gap between the number of short buildings and high buildings. Houses in cities are basically high-rise buildings, and low-rise buildings are built less and less. Because the land price is expensive, the profit of building low-rise buildings is much less, and most of the land supplied now is used to build high-rise buildings.
This is the main reason why developers are increasingly keen to build buildings higher and higher. Therefore, low-rise buildings are generally better than high-rise buildings in terms of comfort because of their low floor area ratio and fewer people living there.
It is suggested to choose low-rise buildings, mainly because the price gap between low-rise buildings and high-rise buildings in most cities in the same area is large. In particular, the price of garden houses with elevators is generally higher than that of high-rise buildings. In the future, low-rise buildings will become more and more scarce, and the appreciation space will naturally be greater than that of high-rise buildings.
Second, the construction quality and maintenance.
As time goes on, the building itself will be damaged. The longer the time, the greater the quality problem, which means that the building has a life.
Speaking of the top floor, I have to mention the elevator. Nowadays, high-rise buildings rely heavily on elevators, but the service life of elevators is generally 10 years, which is based on good maintenance in advance. Once it reaches its service life, it is necessary to replace it with a new elevator. The cost of an elevator reaches hundreds of thousands, and there may be dozens of elevators in a larger community, not a few.
In addition to the elevator, the maintenance of the whole building is actually very complicated, and other power equipment, heating equipment, etc. Need to be maintained or replaced. Having said that, it is necessary to mention the maintenance fund. However, although there are maintenance funds in the community now, it is really unclear how long it can last. Once the maintenance fund is used up, the owner needs to raise funds by himself, and the amount may be quite large.
Third, high-rise buildings are not easy to be demolished.
Nowadays, high-rise residential buildings are being built on a large scale in cities. Have you ever thought about what will happen in the next few decades when high-rise buildings face the problem of demolition? Compared with high-rise, the profit of low-rise demolition is definitely higher, and the cost of high-rise demolition is very high. Think about how many families there will be in a high-rise residential building, at least dozens or even hundreds, and it will cost a lot of money to mediate when demolition.
Neither the government nor the developers are willing to demolish high-rise buildings. Therefore, it is very likely that high-rise buildings will really become slums in the next few decades.