The National Association of Home Builders recently published a Cost of Construction Survey, which details the various costs of building a typical new single-family home. Many of the results show ...

And many prospective homebuyers have decided that if they have to pay through the nose to grab a piece of the American dream, they might as well get exactly what they want by building their own ...

But what about building a house from the ground up? A study by StorageCafe looked at the costs of building a house compared to buying a newly built, roughly equivalent house in each of 46 U.S. states.