Cost of building a house

Hi,

My partner and I are currently looking to buy a site in Galway, within comuting distance of Galway city. We had set a limit of 150K on site but it seems that the average is 250-300K.

We would like to build an average size house, not too small not too big, maybe arount 1800 square feet.

Cauld anyone who has built a house or is building give me an estimate of how much it sould cost to buld a house of this size.

Thanks!!

Hi brokeagain,

Rough general costs are from €75 to €130 /SQFT depending on the finish and quality of your building. Builders finish €85/sqft @ 1800sqft = €153,000. Finishes and decoration after that depending on yourself €40k total estimate €193,000. Check my blog may help

http://ardmorewaterford.blogspot.com/

Jolly man, had a look at your blog and found it very useful indeed! Its well structured and easy to navigate. I'm starting a new build on my own site shortly and will refer to this regularly. Keep it going. Well done.

Thanks for the support runner hope it is of help to all that view.

Regards,
Jollyman

Jollyman, that is an excellent blog!

I have trawled the web trying to find info like that but up to now I could only find quotes from developers.

Thanks fir your hard work