How much it costs to build a 4 bedroom house in Ghana from foundation to finishing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- In today's video, we find out exactly how much it costs to build a house in Ghana. Kingsley from Asher & Gad walks us through his 4 bedroom home and shares the cost of the build from the foundation to its current state. Construction started in October 2020 so some of these costs may be outdated but it can still give you an idea of how much to start putting down towards your home. We cover the costs of the preliminary works, substructure, superstructure, finishing etc. He also shares some stories about his journey. Next week, we will cover some of the costs we missed, challenges building in Ghana, building versus buying in Ghana and walk through his GHS 5,000 tiny house.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:52 Land Cost
02:07 Preliminary works
03:43 Experience with land guards
04:13 Preliminary works cost
06:59 Building from the diaspora
09:07 Superstructure costs
11:11 Total floor area
11:40 How to save money on your build
14:05 Raising the foundation
15:31 Septic tank costs
17:00 Atrium
18:02 Rework
19:31 Atrium cost
20:15 Price discrepancies
20:45 Internal Work
22:47 Electrical room
25:06 Tiling cost
28:05 Lighting cost
31:18 Kitchen
34:39 Water system
38:17 Fence wall
42:52 First floor
51:46 Rooftop
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So where is the total cost of the house?
@@ozzylink 1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
When he said he bought the land for 47,500 that's Ghanaian Cedi?
total of 6,113.13 united states money
Cobra, through the toilet
Land ~ $7000
Foundation ~ $12000
1st floor ~ $14000
Septic ~ $2200
Atrium ~ $3000
Borehole ~ 1800
Reverse osmosis (if needed) ~ $2500
Fence ~ $3500
Chandelier ~$300
Paint ~ $500 (unbelievable!!)
2nd floor ~ $14000 (no price just added 1st floor)
Water pump ~ $1400
Roof system ~ 1100
Add $20,000 because he did the designs.
Total $75,000 USD for a MANSION!!
Im moving to Ghana…..
Thank you
I want one like that on 4 plots to have a big gardet
But what are the political/governmental obstacles?!
@@docimma the biggest hurdle I keep hearing about is land rights. You gotta make sure your property is verified by the courts prior to purchase so you need a lawyer to do a formal inquiry. But you can petition for citizenship under Right To Abode and have all legal land rights. Just remember that people are people and conduct yourself accordingly.
It’s the same most places other than America
This man is an architect and very intelligent. Thanks for video
Finally someone tells us the actual prices. I don't understand how everyone makes these videos but never tell us in the diaspora the real cost. It's crazy lol Thank you
Great point. Someone down below took the trouble of adding it all up and came to $75k, but is that correct? Why woudn't they tell us?
I bought my second expensive house last two weeks paid in cash, I feel so happy for myself and my achievements watching this random video. So glad I made a good decision about my finance that changed me forever. just hope it encourages someone that it doesn't matter if you doesn't matter if you don't have any of them right now, you can start TODAY regardless your age INVEST and change your future! investing is a grand choice I made! great video! thanks for sharing! I love this
I hope to own a home one day. not quite long I started investing. I'm very curious already and need help on how to enhance and increase my returns. Any good investment tips will be appreciated..
@@alyciagordon3447 Generally, investing requires higher knowledge. For this reason, It's important to have a solid support structure (financial consultant) to guide you through especially in asset picking. I operate with (Alexandra Diana Jose) a consultant who partners with a licensed wealth management firm. For the record, the experience has been the best for my finance. She made me financially stable investing through her help, now I earn on a monthly basis through her passive income strategy... So I'd advise you do get a good investment advisor for yourself. .
@@davidreus9321 please how do i get in touch with her
Impressive. Would you mind sharing some more details. I’d like to have a talk with her.
@@alyciagordon3447 You can make quick internet research with her name mentioned and get in touch with her. Best luck y'all.
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Brilliant subject choice! She asked the right questions and he's an awesome and thorough in his field, so he explains costing in easy to understand ways for the novice. Great job!
This man should be running the Ghanaian economy. What a brilliant & impressive person.
I want to thank him for the break down which is the most important thing for me. The money.
Second. The quality of the material.
Third. The workman ship.
Beautiful home.
This is a man I could do business with, not to mention his cost saving uncle,WOW!! What he has done is extremely impressive. I could definitely see my family & I living in that house. The only things that stop me from starting is the problems of corruption, paying off ppl like land guards, getting cheated @ market bcuz your not native to the land, etc. You definitely have to do your due diligence & research the country , customs, traditions & problems b4 you decide to build & live there. Barring all of that the house , land & view are magnificent & the itemization of the costs was greatly appreciated. Only thing missing is giving a shout out about the contractors used in the building process. Great video!
Thank you for the information. Very useful.
Nice building concept, thanks Maame for sharing.
First time watching your channel and I love you already. Great work
Really impressed Maame, congratulations on your channel.
Building in a foreign country is risky even if you hire a local or native attorney to represent you, because of the bribery and lack of business ethics. This man had a local connection (his uncle) to supervise and manage the process in his absence. This is the only way this works successfully if you are NOT native!! God help the foreigner that tries to do this independently smh.
Like the many on this channel?
Yeah, it's best for you to just stay away, I'll go and deal with it....😊
Serious money! Wow. I enjoy his detailed knowledge of his cost but most of all it was a labor of love with his own inputs in what he wanted with his own knowledge and standard he wanted. This was very interesting.
Just chanced upon your channel. Keep up the good work. I will link up with you when I come to Ghana. I have a similar story and project.
Great content!👏🏾
Wow!!!!! I am blown away, I can't wait to find out the total cost of everything.
This was so informative loved it
This is very detailed!
Ghana is rising. Nice work!
Love how detailed/transparent your videos are.
Ship cannot sail without the crew, so Shout out to the builders/developers & camera crew too. 🙂.
Straight out of Jamaica 💯 informative, I love how he details everything.love to the mother land Africa my dream home in the future 💯💪🤗♥️🇯🇲
Amazing, absolutely amazing! This home is outstanding in every aspect
i can't thank you enough for walking
us through the cost and challenges
but the realization that dreams can
come into fruition therefore I will certainly relish the thought.
great video, very informative
Congrats on this one too and i must congratulate your camera guy too. He/she is on point
Kingsley is such a Engineer haha I love it. Kingsley is a superstar in Ghana now.
I've gained so much knowledge from these videos !
Excellent content 👌 👏 👍🏿
I do appreciate this video is the best one I’ve seen so far and building a house the cost on everything. It’s its really a good video thanks.
I am glad you interviewed Mr Kingsley. He is correct, keeping your budget and track of your spend is very much worth it. It really is like this. The more you keep track of your budget the better it is so you can place money elsewhere. This guy knows what he is doing truly.
It is good practice to keep track of your spending on your build and or home and keep them on a spreadsheet also. This has been a regular practice of mine since the 90s tbh. This man is not messing around, and I love it. He is very informative. Any extra money can go into other things within the build. Brilliant video again Amoaa, I shall share this with my project designers and builders, it is our thing totally.
My local hire shop has been a blessing, however he is correct, where you can buy items that will be useful on the project long-term or another project then yes, worth buying it. I too plan my own projects using a simple drawing software which I then send to CAD designers/planners friends who plot and map-out the sizes accordingly so I can have a look at what I have designed in a more in-depth way and move/add things around.
I watched the atrium parlava and it worked out brilliant with the changes. The door cost roughly the same as my glass door, so that is a reasonable price, more inline with prices where I live. Intrigued to see how much the pillars cost. Otherwise, this is a build I watch from time to time. Very impressive.
Couldn't take in all the beautiful views because my screen constantly fuzzes in and out. However, I am sure they are beautiful.
Thank you Kingsley for sharing your personal space/build/project with us.
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Nice, just beautiful.well detailed and proper
Amazing content. Well detailed and fluid. Good job guys.
Fantastic I love it and I’m learning as well.
I am happy and admire your effort and hard work for this job. We'll done shall really get into contacting you later. Good and concise work. I salute you once again.
This man and his uncle are really well organized, they did such a great job building all this and dealing with the neighbors as well. And that presenter is very professional and asking the right questions. Good job all 💯
I need such clients. He also does his budgets 🔥
It’s a shame they took the tree down. I think it’s really good that many of us taking back our lands and building structure, but I think we should respect nature as much as possible whilst we do it. If there was so much being said about that tree, I would have incorporated in my home somehow. Feature, garden area or something
This was an amazing 👏 video 📹 I really enjoyed it. Congratulations 👏 🎊 💐 on your house 🏠 👏 ❤️ in Ghana 🇬🇭 😀. Thank you for all the help information and all the great details of building 👷♀️ your home 🏡.
Thank you Kingsley for sharing such detail of your construction project, especially the challenges of dealing w/labourers. I am looking to custom build in Benin Republic, and your experience has made me re-consider.
Beautiful build💞💞...
Was Great to meet you Maame Amoaa!
You doing a great job
We will definitely do this again
Bless
Kingsley
Definitely, Kingsley. Great to meet you too and thanks for all the helpful information!
Which part of Ghana did you buy the land?
This guy is a genious love his English chateah home
Great video!
I reeeeeeeally enjoyed the cost break downs! Thank you
I need to contact him when im ready to have my home built. he is extremely knowledgeable
This is great. Keep up the good work.
If you can give us a total.for all, that would be great.
Very informative video!
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I really admire your channel, and what you’ve done to lift the awareness outside of Africa for what is going on inside Africa. Thank you.
I like his style of keeping track of everything. I would definitely hire him.
This is a beautiful home. I would love to see the finished product. It's funny. I never would have associated a home such as this with Ghana. I had heard a few friends talking about retiring and moving to Ghana. I could definitely do this, and the owner is a very knowledgeable and hands on involved in the construction, which is a wonderful thing. He knows when something doesn't look right. I was laughing at the part about the neighbors complaining about flooding. I guess wherever you go you're going to have some slick neighbors. Trying to get him to be responsible for a problem that was pre-existing. The owner has exquisite taste in tile, granite, design, etc. I'm curious to know about the windows. Where I live, bars are illegal due to fire safety regulations. Can bars such as those be opened from the inside during an emergency? Once again. Beautiful home.
This is the 2nd video I've seen so far on your channel. I love how you have detail description with regards to timestamps. Definitely a novelty approach. I don't think anyone else out there is doing that or not that I've seen. I love it. keep it up
Lovely and great works
He knows he'll be returning home and I'm sure his family we be sharing the house with him. That's a planner right there.
Love it beautiful home indeed
Very informative
Bars on the windows inside and out tells me all I need to know! Best of luck.
Kingsley is such an amassing gentleman, I love and respect him as a person. Mrs is very lucky. Stay Blessed Kingsley .
Interesting content, thanks for the information Amoaa!
Nice educational video!
I’m impressed how he documents and budgets his project. My company sell land for only 5,000 cedis (five thousand) 80x80 per plot near Cape Coast, Ghana. Currently building a learning/training center with a team of professional Ghanaians masonries, although I’m from USA. And vendors selling building materials. It’s so important to track your money, make comparison on cost and build with the right team. We offer such services to others too.
I would like to know more
@@LaLa13971 same
I really enjoy your contents u put up always. Kingsley 👍 , Maame Amoaa you doing grt
Thank you, Alfred. Glad that you do.
Another solution for your rain waste water run off is to have a pit or well dug into the ground built with concrete blocks and steel and use it for the roof catchment. Use a sprinkler system to distribute this stored water onto beautiful lawns, gardens, fruit trees, and such greenery that I am sure Kingsley will incorporate down the road.
I have been watching his and his wife for some time now very good step by step showing you but the way the cost of materials has gone up this will be another matter
Much Gratitude.
I love the details I would let you build my house very knowledgeable. Love your attention to every detail and your smart shopping.
Excellent content. You even added a transcript of it all👌
Bruhhhh. This house is sooooo cool🔥
Thanks for sharing
Greetings from Jamaica and Toronto. You're so pleasant
Food for thought 👑
Home & All Future 🏡 he Designs Are Definitely Winners 😊 Congratulations
And Great Video ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Very thorough and detailed to the letter…Good information.
A lot of people forget about how internet will work in their home. for a big house like this a good network architecture now should help a lot
This mansion is beautiful I m loving the atrium. I want it for my project
Took me a while to finish this video because I was taking my sweet time to digest all the information and the cost(I think he got very good deals on most of the materials )Maame made this video very detailed and I love it.
Can we get a list of the contractor's used for his build? Also, I would also like to know where he got the steel doors?
I’d like to follow this…
Definitely on the steel doors as they are invaluable
Maybe start with a map overhead and a description of the general area. I ❤ global real estate.
I need this guy to oversee my Ghana home build.
If you about to build get Quantity Surveyor. He will produce all cost from substructure to superstructure
Beautiful house love it
I admire your beauty, elegance, and passion for building.
It's not a house, It's a castle. A beautiful one.
VERY LOVELY IT'S NOT A HOUSE BUT A MANSION OK.....🔥🔥🔥
VERY IMPRESSIVE WHICH I REALLY 💟 IT ✔
This is very detailed. I like the part where he outlines the challenges associated with the project. Thank you Amoa and Mr Kingsley. Good job!
I'm moving to Africa. I love this video
Thank you so much
Well done guys for the video. I like his diligence and proper record keeping and oh a swimming pool on the roof would be awesome.
I just think it’s amazing how the roads are still red clay in the neighborhood. I remember my grandfather told me they had to walk in red clay mud here in ga (USA) to get to church everyday . One day many neighborhoods in providence African wide the roads in neighborhoods will be paved . I have a friend in sierra Leon , he said they just paved his neighborhood
I love flat roofs! Well done brother. I hope i can achieve a house construct with a flat roof.
Wow! Beautiful price.❤❤💯💯💯
New Sub
You have an amazing speaking voice
It's a beautiful home , congratulations to you
This was a helpful and informative video thanks to both of use.
Goodness, that crazy electrician.. crazy ass bugger
But look at the house, Kingsley (and his uncle) did an awesome job on the place!
Am sure it'll turn into a wonderful home!
A note on the retractable roof though, it might be a problem if you had to get up onto the roof during a rainstorm.
Not sure how heavy rains get that part of the world, but it's a nono for us here in the tropics.
Excellent
Asher please expand a bit more on the isolation plumbing upstairs on your channel 🙏
Basically two stop cocks in the bathroom. If there is an issue in the bathroom I can isolate it by using the stop cocks. If I didn’t have that, I would have to isolate the entire house water supply, which would be inconvenient. I have various water supply zones throughout the house for that very same reason. Hope that makes sense
When we lived in Accra, our house was on about 2 acres, I think on Second Circular Road. The house was elevated, in that you could walk underneath it if you bent over. About 4 feet. Our watchman would park his bike underneath the house. There were many support columns underneath where we would chain up the dog away from the sun. You have a nice custom designed house.
Very important information
Wonderful 👍
Nikkibongo!
The attitudes and mindsets of the artisan are so culturally similar to their counterparts in Jamaica.
Good video.
Is it weird if I congratulate you for the millionth time! You guys are inspiration to me and many people. Well done!