How to keep costs down when building your own home

Three key factors that affect cost per square foot are building size, construction complexity, and design specification

Building in Ireland is generally quite expensive in any event as there is a labour shortage and there has also been inflation in the cost of materials.

Hi Kieran, myself and my boyfriend wanted to buy a new home but it looks like we are priced out of the market where we want to live. We are at the early stages of considering building our own home instead. Are self-build homes always expensive? Are there simple, three-bed options out there that will be on the lower end of the scale in terms of price? What are the things that really add to the price of a self-build?
Thanks, Orla, Tralee

Hi Orla, many thanks for your question. Are self builds always expensive? I suppose this comes down to what you mean by expensive.