Buying a house used to be a rite of passage for middle-class Americans, but in recent decades, would-be homeowners have found themselves priced out of the market. The affordability crisis has become ...

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Buying an existing home is usually cheaper, faster and more predictable than building one from scratch. A ground-up custom home can run 20% to 30% above the cost of an equivalent existing house once ...

It could become more expensive to build a house this year. Cotality, formerly known as Corelogic, has released its latest Cordell Construction Cost Index, which shows residential building costs ...