How much did it cost to build your house reddit

Our build has taken 26 months (so far). My wife and I are personally building a new single family home on a 25% sloped lot in Chattanooga. Even though the house was new construction, it was in a federal historic district, so it took nearly four months to get our design approved by the historic zoning commission. After that, we spent five months removing over 4 million pounds of dirt, grading a 15% driveway 105 feet long, erecting scaffolding for 10" thick stem walls on two floors (house is 11' underground at deepest point), pouring over 100 cubic yards of concrete, and then backfilling behind the concrete walls. Over the next four months, we framed the structure and installed a standing seam metal roof (worst part). Then we installed exterior rigid insulation and hardie siding in a couple months, followed by plumbing/electrical/hvac, etc over a couple months. Then we hung drywall (so heavy) and had it professionally taped & floated... we then painted everything and for the past month+ we've been laying tile. So much work, and we're so freaking sick of it.

Its not actually that expensive just buying the materials. Paying labour is about the same as materials.

Loads of self build sites you can enter house sizes and type and it calculates the materials your need. Without fit out or labour you can get a shell up with roof, windows etc for about 20k. Its actually pretty cheap if you can do the work yourself.

My next door neighbour owns his own building comp. He was telling me about his last job the other day.. Simple 4x5 extension. 5k materials and a 2k bifolding door. 8k on wages. Customer charged 52k. So much money to be made and reason my neighbour works for about 3 months a year and spends rest of the time chilling.

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I'm trying to figure out whether the cost of materials and work required to build a house differs much between countries, excluding buying the land itself because that obviously varies wildly. Here in Poland most sites would tell you that building the house alone should cost up to about ~900EUR/m2, much lower than apartment pricing. What would it cost to build one m2 of standalone housing in your country?

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According to the first thing I found after googling, in the UK it costs between £1,750 and £3,000 per m2 to build a house.

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Is it measured in square meters or square feet in the UK?

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Switzerland...i dont think a message on reddit allows that many 0s

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In Croatia, it was around 1200 €/m2 for my parents house (average house with nothing too fancy, but nice).

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In the Netherlands it is around €2000 to €2500 per m2 for an average house.

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Depends on the area. In the north-east I recently saw several plots, 80K for 1000m2.

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Median is around 1250€/m2, but it can go for anywhere between 1000€/m2 and 2000€/m2.

The land price itself varies much more, depending on local public infrastructure, proximity of cities, parking spots if in cities, surrounding landscape, etc.

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I'm calculating on Rihter - around 1500€ for a clasic house in 5th phase. Lumar special price around the same, others probably more. Marles around 1300. Others don't have prices listed. I guess you could get cheaper from a small unknown company? Riko probably has insane prices.

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Google tells me it was 2000€/m2 on average at 2019 in Finland. I believe it has gone up a fair bit since then.

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Yeah, maybe up by 20% or so, thanks to material prices going up.

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It used to be lower year and a half ago. Now it costs around 1300-2000€ per square meter, depending on the materials used. I bought a land with the estimate of older prices and after the purchase, the construction prices skyrocketed (supply chain crisis, whole covid impact etc).

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In Sweden, 2021, it was on average about 28.000 SEK (2500 euros) per m2.

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Norway from 2800euro Denmark 2800-3000 euro

This is the basic no fancy options.

Additional cost might apply depending on area/type of house

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This was within 10% of my hazard guess too. Around 3k/m

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Less might do (OP said without the lot)!

The cheapest house I could find after a quick search here in Denmark was a 152m2 standard house at 260k €, that works out at about 1700€/m2

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Kind of depends on the specific area in Germany, but the average is around 1.500-2.300€/qm, but you can easily get to 2.500€ and upwards.

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hmm but would the price of building the house itself be dependent on the location? I thought the location impacts land prices mostly.

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I've heard that Poland/Eastern European countries in general have some of the highest rates of home ownership in the world. Here in South Korea, a 40-year-old tiny shitty apartment costs over 4 million dollars. So, People in my country no longer want to buy a house. I am a little envious of countries that have a culture of building their houses for themselves.

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That would also explain why I keep seeing so many new Youtube videos about fixing 100y old Korean houses in my feed...