[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 ?