[markwakeford]

Can someone help me out on the missing pieces here, whats the average construction cost of a regular home in the US ? In Australia a single storey 180m2 home which is just under 2000 ft2 would run for approximately $200k AUD. That works out to be $1100 per square meter or a little over $100 AUD or $80 USD per square foot. The article is stating around $300 USD per square foot, this seems astronomically expensive.

[quickthrower2]

AU$200k? 180m2? It won't be a good quality house.

[markwakeford]

Our build was around $355'000, for 279m2 but it was high set. We did opt for some premium finishes not found on most homes built these days, we have 2.7m high ceilings, ducted ac, ducted vac, square set cornices, stone bench tops through out, floor to ceiling tiles in the bathrooms and wc, we also have european appliances, built in coffee machine, steam oven etc.

Based on what we spent yeah ours would have been around $230k if we had built 180m2, but you have to factor in the fact we did go double storey.

[taneq]

That's a reasonable cost for building a decent quality single story brick-and-tile house in Perth, Australia.

Here's one of a similar size for $190k: https://media.dalealcock.com.au/deals1/

[beachy]

I was astonished as the ease of building houses in Perth when I visited recently.

Since its all sand, digging and compacting your foundations is ridiculously easy, and typically getting out of the ground is the riskiest part of building a new home.

Then pick a off the shelf house design which is simple brick and tile, so there's no gotchas during construction.

I can well believe these costs.

[markwakeford]

Yeah, thats generally what they run for here in QLD as well, are the smashed avo loving areas over inflating building costs as well as land prices ?

[alvah]

Land in Australian capital cites is expensive, but home construction costs are not. We built 307m2 with a decent builder in Perth for AUD$250k a few years ago, if anything construction prices have softened since then.

[quickthrower2]

I'm not surprised in Perth. It is going through a multi year property slump. I guess builders are desperate? Good time to build, but is unusual.