Cost to build a house in 2026 ($1m home)

One of the biggest objections that we get is the cost per square foot to build nationwide and what the cost is today in the current market. One of the biggest things that we recognize is that there's volatility in the market, so you have to know where that volatility sits and how to control and regulate your overall

cost to build a house so that you can understand what your profitability is going to be. Now, with Alex build, my camera guy, today we're going to go over exactly what the real live market costs are. Now, although costs to build, there's variables nationwide, what I always tell people is that the more

expensive the land, the more expensive the cost to build, the larger the resale price is, the larger your profitability is going to be. But this relates to a common market of 85% of the United States, so let's cover and see exactly what this 2,601 square foot house really costed in real numbers to build ground

up and the resale value of this house today. Alec, why don't you come on in here so that the folks can see you. This is not my build, this was Alex build. Alec took on this build and one of the big things was him being able to go in as a first time home builder, being able

to put that effort to work, but budgeting was probably one of the biggest stressful points of the house from start to finish because you just didn't know all those variables, yes or no? >> Yeah, definitely. And having a mentor of someone like you who has the experience and knowledge and understanding of that

set us up for success, so where all of our numbers were conservative, we were still over budget on a couple things, but having that ability to have the spreadsheet really made it to where we knew what we were doing. >> We were able to steal from some to give to others, but all in all you did really