The Cost of Building a Custom New Homes
Ron Lee Homes in St. Tammany Parish is one of the elite builders in Covington, Louisiana, which builds fully custom new homes with spectacular finishes. Inside or out, these new homes are built with intense attention to detail to make sure that every minute finish is construction with as much perfection as possible. Many of the interior amenities of custom homes built by Ron Lee Homes are imported materials or custom built materials that are installed by specialty contractors.
According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), this type of new home construction actually 
trends with national averages in that 29.6% of the cost of construction is spent on interior finishes. The rest of the breakdown in construction costs are as follows: framing (18.0 percent), exterior finishes (15.0 percent), major system rough-ins (13.1 percent), foundations (11.6 percent), final steps (6.8 percent), site work (5.6 percent), and other costs (0.5 percent).
When calculating the cost to build a new, single-family home, the NAHB surveyed builders with its Cost of Construction Survey and found that new homes built on approximately 1/2-acre lots with 2,802 square feet had a sales price of $468,318. 61.8% of that sales price encompassed the cost of the construction of building the new home which is only .1% higher than the costs reported in 2013.
Interestingly, the cost of the lot and the cost of finishing the lot made up a large chunk of the expense of building in the total percentages spent of the sale. Land in St. Tammany Parish has a premium price compared to more 
northern and western parishes in Louisiana as well.
At the same time as this data has been released by the NAHB, another analysis of construction spending says that total private residential construction spending for September increased 1.3% over August spending and 13% year-over-year. The reason for this increase may also be the increase in the cost of materials as well. However, single-family home permits and starts are up as well, so the money put back into the economy in the form of materials purchases as well as employment is up across the board nationwide – a good sign for the real estate market.
