I hope you realize that your question is very open and it's hard for people to give you an answer.

In general building your own house will have some cost saving compared to buying ready made one. This is because when you buy a ready made house the developer's profit is factored in already.

Main thing in building your own house is location. Can you buy an empty plot in your desired location? The land cost can vary a lot depending on location. Some people buy a land with a house on it and demolish the existing old house.

The design and approvals can be handled by the architect. Usually the architect fee will be a small % of the construction cost.

Construction cost can also vary a lot depending on what materials you want to use.

How do you get figure of 30-40% cheaper?

I don't think I've heard anyone building a double storey terrace house from scratch. Firstly, very rarely you see anybody sell a vacant lot 22x75. Normally vacant land is larger and for bungalow.


It's not only material cost. There is also land cost, especially for new land acquisition.

Best way to estimate construction cost is by the built up area x construction cost psf. Typical 22x75 link house is 2000-2100 ft2. Check the cost with contractor, but yes definitely under half mil.

You might be able to arrange for construction financing from the bank. It will be similar to normal housing loan.

Realistically speaking, for terrace houses there is not much choice except buy from developer. U don't see vacant terrace lots for sale do u?

But don't forget that developer gets economies of scale because things are done on project basis. If a private owner builds his own house the costs will be higher.

Nowadays and especially in KL I reckon it's closer to the 150k mark. Your estimate is based on project basis or individual basis?

And as you said there is a lot of other costs involved like professional fees, infrastructure, etc.

This post has been edited by jchong: Aug 24 2012, 10:25 PM

What has LGE got to do with the topic?

Do go and ask the banks. They will want to see your construction contract and land S&P and the usual requirements like your salary, etc.

One semi-d or a pair?

That's interesting. I wonder if the local authority will allow you to build one semi-d only.

Usually semi-d built in a pair to be symmetrical. If you just build one, next time the other side will have some challenges to tie into the one semi-d.

Which part of Puchong is this? Maybe one day I'll drive by that area to see how it's like.

Yeah, the local authority might not stop you but wonder if they will impose any funny conditions when you submit building plan for approval.

Yup the semi-d just has to share one party wall. If the other side not yet built then I suppose you'll build the party wall first and I guess the party wall will have to be finished and painted... hmm...

Nah, not really looking to buy any semi-d at the moment