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Big Twin
Posts: 1,099
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: north hampshire
Mood: is it cos i is a bricklayer
its not the cost of bricks and mortar that is the true cost- its the land that it sits on is most expensive part of building a house
i looked at some land not long ago big enough for one dwelling( a bungalow)as per the outline planning total land price was 220 thousand pound - i could build a nice bungalow(using my own skills) minus fittings for less than 25% of that cost!!!!!! so total cost including my own labour in that respect would have been around 270,000 +fittings
a builder bought the land threw up a bungalow furnished it with the cheapest fittings he could find and sold the lot for over 600,000 in under three months---nice work if you can get it!!!!