Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 30, 2009 1:00 pm How much would you expect to pay for a custom built home of around 28 squares? Building on an acre in Macedon ......one day. Re: Custom built - how much? 2Sep 30, 2009 1:05 pm Price per square would vary depending on where you are, but we are getting a custom-built house by a private builder and not paying any more than the same sized home of a similar style by a project builder. We didn't use an architect so don't have any design fees there, but enquiries we made with architects suggested their fees would be around 10-15% of the cost to build. HTH Kylie Re: Custom built - how much? 3Sep 30, 2009 1:17 pm Hmmm, we're in victoria and it seems that project builders are building houses far more cheaply than the builders we've spoken to for our custom build. Thanks for your reply though, I was just curious to know people's opinions - though it's probably difficult to generalise over such a thing ... Building on an acre in Macedon ......one day. Re: Custom built - how much? 4Sep 30, 2009 2:07 pm I depends on alot of factors including location, your block, how many bathrooms you want, whether your having standard inclusions and if you want double brick etc etc. I'm building a Duplex and each side will be 28 squares with fully tiled wet areas (2 bathrooms, 1 powder room, 1 ensuite and 1 laundry), flat land and it will be brick veneer. My architect cost about 12k and the Builders are have quoted approx $650-700k for both side of Duplex. So dividing that by half my 28 square Duplex is costing approx $335, and then extra for pool area etc. Hope that helps. And I'm sure for $335k you can build a bigger 'project home' but with lower inclusions. DA approved Waiting on a few more Builder's quotes. Re: Custom built - how much? 6Sep 30, 2009 7:52 pm rosypaige Where I live builders charge roughly $1000 per sqm. Gee, that sounds much cheaper then the builders I've spoken to. In fact, I've been told double that - $2000 per sqm by a couple of builders. Maybe I just haven't spoken to the "right" builder yet! Building on an acre in Macedon ......one day. Re: Custom built - how much? 7Sep 30, 2009 8:07 pm rosypaige Where I live builders charge roughly $1000 per sqm. Project homes tend to be cheaper until you start adding in all the "extras". We just finished a custom build and this price is about right. We actually used a project home builder but just got them to build our design. The price came in about the same as the same size project home that they build. We didn't use an architect but jsut drew up the plans on some CAD software and the build took that & drew up the final plans from that. My tip is shop around and speak to as many builders as you can. We spoke to about 8 different builders and had 5 actually give us a quote on building our design. The prices ranged considerably with over $100,000 between the highest & lowest. Our custom build with Rossdale http://hazehome.blogspot.com/ https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17630 7 12028 I thought this would be a popular question but I haven't been able to find any similar posts. Perhaps I'm wording my searches wrong? When you have car insurance and the… 0 6624 They make the room much easier to clean for one, reflect more light (if light colour tiles are used), and you dont end up with dust on the top edge of tiles (cause most… 3 9618 |