Cost to build a house?

ILW

How much does it cost to build an average 3 bed terraced house, excluding land and any developers profit?

ess0two

£1000-£1200 per square foot.

ILW

ess0two wrote: »

£1000-£1200 per square foot.

Thanks
How many square foot is teh everage 3 bed terrace?

PasturesNew

If I am standing on 1 square foot in the living room .... and above me is another square foot of bedroom .... does that mean it's 2 square feet to build that?

abaxas

ess0two wrote: »

£1000-£1200 per square foot.

I think you are getting square meter and foot mixed up.

About 800-1200 per square meter depending on level of trim.

PasturesNew

ILW wrote: »

Thanks
How many square foot is teh everage 3 bed terrace?

I'd guesstimate it'd be 15' wide, two rooms deep at 12' apiece, and a sticking out bit of kitchen at 10x7

So that'd be:
(15x12)x2
x 2 for the first floor
Plus
(10x7)x1 for the kitchen
x 2 for the first floor

Or, using Google as a calculator: http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=((15*12)*2*2)%2B((10*7)*2)&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=30b0f135803d42c7

860 square feet.

Now, 860 x £1000/square foot doesn't sound right does it, or that puts a terraced house at just under a million

abaxas

Just to add....

If it was 1k per sq foot.

A 12x12 house would cost £144,000 to build.

PasturesNew

Ah, abaxus says per square meter, not per square foot.

My rule of thumb for that is "divide by 10" as each 1 square foot is 0.09290304 square metres.

Previous example ends up as 80 square metres. So £80k.

abaxas

Note the anove figures are for detached properties on two levels.

Bungalows will be more expensive and terraced much cheaper.

If a builder can build a 2 bed terraced starter home and sell it to you for 70k. You do the maths.

ILW

So 860 sq ft is approx 85 sq metres, so around £80k to build the house?

abaxas

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd guesstimate it'd be 15' wide, two rooms deep at 12' apiece, and a sticking out bit of kitchen at 10x7

So that'd be:
(15x12)x2
x 2 for the first floor
Plus
(10x7)x1 for the kitchen
x 2 for the first floor

Or, using Google as a calculator: http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=((15*12)*2*2)%2B((10*7)*2)&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=30b0f135803d42c7

860 square feet.

Now, 860 x £1000/square foot doesn't sound right does it, or that puts a terraced house at just under a million

So quite a big house costs 80k to build if doing it yourself. Obviously there is no economy of scale when you build 100 :P