Anyone have any experience in this or know about it?

I can not beleive how cheap it is, once you have the land and permission.

Met up with a guy who I worked with years back yesterday. Was just saying how we want to move in the next 3-5 years to a better location and conv went on to his brother who is a builder.

He now builds houses for a living, small scale at 2-3 per time

His last project was 2 x 3 bedroom houses. total build cost inc land was 75k each. On the day of the completion and sign off - worth 225k each. He did another 5 bed build near Epping - total cost was 170k and was worth 450k on sign off.

Its just amazing how cheap it is to build a house if you got the cash and land!.

So decided to do some digging - and whilst alot depends on the foundations, changes in land in terms of piping and if you want ti steel/ wood frame and then double brick built, its actually very basic as long as you got quality workmen.

Surely gota be worth a look into doing if you want a decent family house! assuming you got the land!

My Dad did it. One of these: http://www.potton.co.uk/

Getting the land is the hard thing, the rest is easy peasy, I used to do a lot of stuff with Habitat for Humanity

Something I've always considered doing.

Cheap Bungalows are always worth a look as these tend to have more land around them and can be ripe for pulling down and doing a new build. You also can claim back the VAT on new builds. Only pisser is some planning offices can be picky with permissions.

I'd allow 250k upwards in the pot for a reasonable budget for the build.

i cannot wait to see kevin mccloud rip you a new one if you were to go on grand designs............especially with your timelines

Alex wrote:Something I've always considered doing.

Cheap Bungalows are always worth a look as these tend to have more land around them and can be ripe for pulling down and doing a new build. You also can claim back the VAT on new builds. Only pisser is some planning offices can be picky with permissions.

I'd allow 250k upwards in the pot for a reasonable budget for the build.

yeh - on build value ud get a bloody big house for 250k! obv inc of land then it depends.

ill try and get a picture of one thats done near my house...VERY impressive. instead of moving - they knocked down the house and made this kick ass house in like 4 months. Prob about 5 bed but double fronted and must be pretty sizeable. i cant imaging it costing more than 170k for build and internals

I would frigging love to do it, and it's long time been part of my dream for what I would look to do in the future. As said, here in the UK the hardest part is obtaining the land at a reasonable price and getting the permission to build. Once those things are secured though, I think so long as well organised it would be surprisingly affordable.

Land is about, just depends where you're looking to live. Travel anywhere 50 miles out of the Thames Valley and you'll be surprised what's available.