"Jonty Pearson" wrote in message
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simon beer wrote:
ignoring the cost of a plot on which to build, what does the assembled
masses here think the build cost of a 4 bed house would be. I know
it's how long is a piece of string but lets just talk about the
material cost of say your average well specked 4 bed estate house.
Block construction not timber framed and a footprint of about
40x35ft. Anyone done it recently? or point to a news group more
dedicated to new build with a big leaning to doing it yourself rather
that just arranging the contractors yourself.
many thanks


This one made grand-designs a few years ago and cost £75K to build, from
recollection is was reasonably high spec!

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/...ereford-2.html

Land is difficult to find these days and years ago you had to fund all the
costs (i.e. profesional fees / plot cost/ groundworks) until the
foundations
were in before you could get a mortgage, no idea if this is still the
case!

No. they have progression mortgages. They drip feed you the money in
stages, and only after the prior stage is built and inspected.



Unless you or your family are in the trade, it usually pays to employ a
project manager (about 10% of build cost) to run your site!!

Jon




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