House build rough cost in West Midlands?

spitandpolish

My mum is looking to build 2x 3bed affordable (as this is all she'll get planning for) housing on a 0.5acre plot next to her main residence. Economies of scale and that they are next to each other what kind of build cost are we looking at, absolutely ballpark. As for square meterage I can't be entirely sure but it'll be three properly sized bedrooms (two doubles, one single).

They are for future rental at 9/10ths market rate.

Thanks.

Edit: semi-detached not a squashed single bedroom.

Gingernutty

You need an architect and a quantity surveyor.

The rough answer is "it depends".

It depends on the quality of the building materials, build quality, size of each house etc.

Until you know the floorplan and have architects plans, the quantity surveyor won't be able to give you an estimate.

spitandpolish

Gingernutty wrote: »

You need an architect and a quantity surveyor.

The rough answer is "it depends".

It depends on the quality of the building materials, build quality, size of each house etc.

Until you know the floorplan and have architects plans, the quantity surveyor won't be able to give you an estimate.

We have the architectural plans ready to submit; it's of standard brick construction, very easy to envisage but the builders are being suitably vague and giving a how longs a piece of string answer telling us £200k+ for both (+ if there are any unforseen eventualitys) same builder quoted £4k to do some damp proofing on one wall of my mums house and the final bill came in at just under £20k.

I would have said £170-180k built to a standard high enough to rent out (which is more than can be said for the main new builders.

theartfullodger

The MSE private - selected members only - building estimator says £167.4k, if I guessed the town right.


What did builder tell you when you PAID him for an estimate?

NB That includes VAT, obviously.

Cheers!

RAS

spitandpolish wrote: »

very easy to envisage but the builders are being suitably vague and giving a how longs a piece of string answer telling us £200k+ for both (+ if there are any unforseen eventualitys) same builder quoted £4k to do some damp proofing on one wall of my mums house and the final bill came in at just under £20k.

Why are you even considering using the same company again given the history?

spitandpolish

theartfullodger wrote: »

The MSE private - selected members only - building estimator says £167.4k, if I guessed the town right.


What did builder tell you when you PAID him for an estimate?

NB That includes VAT, obviously.

Cheers!

Thanks that aligns with what I was thinking. She pays in other ways unfortunately... wait out for my next post

spitandpolish

RAS wrote: »

Why are you even considering using the same company again given the history?

They are my mums 'trusted' builders (lucky for them cash rich and lonely).

Quoted the build when they completed the guttering last week. Plastic replacing cast iron pipes on a grade 2 listed property, nice!!! My mum wouldn't tell me how much she paid for that job.

Other listed of fails, bathroom redone last year (appalling plumbing which dopped the hot water pressure in all other rooms so they installed a pump (at cost) never had a pump before and I could hear it was struggling and bound to fail, it did three times. Cost of bathroom and remedial work £8k.

They rebuilt her conservatory two years ago at a cost of £40k she was quoted £30k with hard wood but my dad (bless him) before he died noticed it was an inferior soft wood clearly not suitable) so they agreed to split the remedial work labour/new frames.

There are plenty of other jobs completed at an eye watering amount however I am going to focus ny attention on this as it's potentially their biggest job/pay day yet

RAS

Hi

Please report this lot to trading standards urgently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-17076444

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348255/Organised-gang-conned-1million-elderly-vulnerable-people-going-homes-offering-carry-repairs.html