Here's everything you need to consider when choosing between buying an existing house and building one from scratch. What costs are required when building a custom house? How do you finance a ...

25 March 2025 Prices of residential property in the fourth quarter of 2024: +1.9% on the same quarter of the previous year In the 4 th quarter of 2024, the prices of residential property (house price ...

A massive 597-foot-tall skyscraper was once meant to be a luxury building, but instead it lies abandoned and has become an eerie ghost tower. Intended to transform the Tianjin skyline in northern ...

Conventional stick-frame homes cost about $35 per square foot. This past year, ICON's method matched that price point and was even cheaper in some cases. ICON's proprietary building material, CarbonX, ...

Soaring construction costs around the city of Los Angeles create another challenge to rebuilding efforts from wildfire damage. My trusty spreadsheet looked at cost indexes from Verisk tracking 34 ...

BCIS produces five-year construction industry forecasts, covering projected costs, tender prices and output, and examining the latest construction market trends. The quarterly BCIS building briefing ...

When the Hudson’s Bay Co. commenced building its flagship western Canadian store in downtown Calgary just before the First World War, its executives were aghast at the $1.5-million price tag and ...

The cost of redeveloping the former Bay building in downtown Winnipeg has risen more than 50 per cent and some of the amenities that were planned have been scaled back or removed altogether.

New tariffs — and uncertainty around trade policy — are already pushing up the cost of key materials used in construction projects. Anticipation of price hikes because of newly imposed tariffs ...

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, added, "Approximately 8 percent of materials employed in the construction of homes in the U.S. are imported, and tariffs ...

The tariffs are projected to raise the costs that go into building a single-family home in the U.S. by $7,500 to $10,000, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Such costs are ...