This! The house in this video is 3x the size, I feel, than most homes in the US. This is also one of those McMansions that aren't worth the land they're built on.
@@tricitymorte1 I would not call this a McMansion. This looks like a pretty well built home. Most of those McMansions are way bigger than a house like this. Most Mc mansions were built poorly. a lot of unused space and wasted space. This is a pretty well-designed and constructed home and it’s in Connecticut. The roof line is a little strange and might fall in line with a McMansion seems to be one Style of design not multitude of different styles. But it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of wasted space. Connecticut was not a state of McMansions. It’s one of the wealthiest states in the country.
@@catlady443 Don't know what to tell you. I'm solidly middle class, and this is similar to what my house looks like. I make $113,000/year. New England states average anywhere from $73,000-$90,000 a year in household income. Houses like this are very common.
Not even upper middle class can afford these anymore. The real estate market is out of control. Greedy agents making absolutely disgusting commissions. It’s sad how greed is destroying homeownership.
A "typical" house in my small town in South Carolina is a 3 bedroom house with maybe 1500 sq. ft. They sell for about $250,000. We bought our 3 bedroom house for $80,000 in 1994! We've spent probably $100,000 over the 30 years we've lived here redoing every room and adding a bonus room and a detached screen porch in the back yard. it's on a .75 acre lot. We could sell it now for $250,000. I saw a big 4 bedroom house on a .8 acre lot with a 3 car garage selling for $680,000 in the ritzy neighborhood in town.
That house is NOT a typical American house. That house is the dream. As others have said, price varies greatly depending on the area. I'm in Virginia and our house is less than 1100 square feet.
That's the smaller dream... that's a nice home for Upper Middle Class folks. You get into the homes that lower upper class folks or middle upper class or even Upper upper class that might resemble a "shitehole" by comparison, granted a NICE shitehole, but....
I live in Northern Virginia just outside the DC beltway. That house is a new build. In Vienna, VA it would run about 1-1.5 mil, depending on the lot. In Southwestern or Central VA (away from the cities), it would be closer to $7-800,000, depending on the lot.
@@Tbone1492Also, no. I do not live in an apartment. Kabir counted 4 bedrooms in that house. My house has 6 and is on 1 acre. Can't wait to downsize. Be careful what you wish for, people.
Connecticut is a wealthy state, and this is probably in a suburb of NYC which are among the nicest places you can live in the country. According to Nick he paid $1.2 million for this house.
I live in Connecticut, I'm from Detroit. The lower southwest corner of CT is pricey and is where the money lives. The rest of the state is quite average to poor. It's not a big money state any longer, just the SW corner near NYC and a few places on the shoreline.
This guy has done more than one post about his house. In one he said it was worth 1 million dollars. It is probably worth more nowadays. It is NOT typical.
In Texas & areas of Arizona, New Mexico, areas throughout the South & Midwest; yes, you could get a house & yard of that size for around $500k. Anywhere in the Northeastern US or California, absolutely not. Decide on the kind of climate and proximity to shops, transportation, schools, etc, before buying anything. Remember, the US is a *huge* country. If I recall correctly, England is approximately the size of the state of Oregon. We have all sorts of weather as well as terrain extremes, cities, mountains, desert, swamp, & rural areas. Visit various areas first. Get to know the people and the area first, especially before you move countries.🙂
Ok, I looked up this home. It’s 3100 sq ft.,; the average American home is 2,300 sq ft. Sold for more than $900,000; current value is estimated at 1.4-1.8 million, depending on the website. Definitely not average.
also literally more expensive than the uk. People are just more accustomed to expensive houses in the usa. You can asbolutely go anywhere outside london and get a massive house for under 500k if you wanted. People in the uk just dont care about large homes, we prefer community and walkability and living near public transport and theaters etc etc.
@@WookieWarriorz I don't know where you the idea that you can this type of home for under 500k in the UK. Just a quick search, if we use Zillow, I could find houses 1.5 hrs away from the city of Chicago that are under 500k that have 6 acres of land or have large yards that are much bigger than what's shown here. Keep in mind this is the Midwest that's hour or so away from a major metro area. What's shown in the video is the suburbs of Connecticut, not small town or rural town. >we prefer community and walkability and living near public transport and theaters etc etc. You mean you're use to smaller homes. Half you people don't even give two shits about the theater let alone public transportation given the automobile is the main mode of transportation in the UK. You also conveniently leave out the fact that cities in the UK are far more denser than American cities as well as your suburbs, so it's not like you Brits demand what is already in place.
@@WookieWarriorz There’s still some in the US that like the walkability factor too. There’s 2 subdivisions down the road from us [built years after we moved here] that have stores on both sides, a promised theatre. I knew of one person that wrote saying they moved there for the theatre. Many promises from town for just that. Enter 2024, still no theatre. It’s been over 10 years. That same person wrote note to local paper saying they moved to an area that offers much more. That area was originally intended to be one with a decent public access but somewhere along politics played into it and well, never ends well. The theatre that the said people could go to instead, has since closed down. Now the next best place, The Alamo, is a 30 minutes “drive”. Spouse and I have always hoped that they would put a BJ Brew/Restaurant in that area but that has not happened. We have to drive 30 minutes north to get to that as well. I know my spouse would stop there. We do have at least one in that area that we go to on occasion, perhaps once a year, if that. It just gets too expensive eating at restaurants anymore.
This is a lot nicer than most American houses. I paid around $150,000 for my house in Oklahoma - big kitchen, 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 living areas, laundry rm, 1 car garage w huge backyard. It’s an older home & I purchased about 6 yrs ago so I’m sure it’s gone way up since then.
I'm NE of OKC. We bought our home in '94 (?) for $60,000 fully furnished.1600sf, 3 beds, 1.5 baths, 2 living rooms and 2 car garage. We sit on a 1 acre corner lot.
My house is similar- two levels plus basement and attic- and likely around the same square foot (mine is about 3500 sq ft) It has an attached two car garage, and a detached shop. On two acres with a small river through the back of the land. We bought it in 2020 for 250k, luckily right before the buying frenzy. Our neighbor purchased a similar home around the same time for around the same price and he just sold for 600k I said all that to say, at one point, you could find a lot of homes like this for under 300k. Today? Absolutely not.
This house is in Connecticut and if you were to purchase it in the northeast it would probably at least a million dollars. I live in the deep south and if you were to purchase a home like this (depending on whether or not it was in the city of a rural area) would probably cost you in the area of $400,000 to $500,000.
I’m in Mississippi and a full brick Southern Traditional home with a wrap around porch, 4 beds, 3 baths, in ground pool, and 3 car garage on 15 acres on my road just sold for $450,000.00.
I'm happy for this man, he's obviously done very well for himself. But that is not average. That's above average. That's house is hundreds of thousands of dollars more expensive than most.
I've worked for 25 years and own a home, and I DREAM of a house like that. The housing market in the US is absolutely insane right now. Many people dream of owning at all because their high rent and local house prices make it impossible to save up enough to buy, let alone afford the taxes and mortgage payments. I'm a weirdo who doesn't want anything over 1500-1800 square feet. This house is enormous to me. In my southern city, it would cost MINIMUM $450,000 in a nice area. In a less desirable neighborhood, $300,000 if it is updated like this one.
The long row of conjoined houses is called a "Row House". They are older and common in the large cities of the east coast...DC. Baltimore, Philly..NYC etc.
Nearly all of the new builds in the DC suburbs now are townhouses and condos, so they’re not all older homes, especially in the suburbs. They only tend to be older in the middle of cities.
It’s a lovely house, but as a fellow resident of Connecticut I will say it’s not just the value of the house (expensive), but the income needed to sustain it. Property taxes vary greatly in various parts of the U.S., and Connecticut has some of the highest in the country. It’s also in the north, so there are winter heating costs to factor in as well as electricity/water.
This house has a yard or a lawn, Americans do not call grass a garden. What you call an allotment, we call a garden. Our gardens emphasize flowers or vegetables, not grass. We mow the yard, not the garden.
An 'allotment' is a very specific thing in the UK. It's a small rented section of a large municipally owned area of land, not within your own property but at a location perhaps half a mile or more from your home, which you are allowed to cultivate as you wish. Most people use it to grrow edibles, but others use part of it to grow flowers. People often have to wait years on a waiting list to get allocated an allotment.
@@carolineskipper6976 I think that's what the person is saying. In the US when we say GARDEN, it means a garden bed... and it would hold the things you grow in an allotment. Our YARD would hold the things you have in a 'garden' of a house.
@@jtidema I get that. But a part of your ' yard' at home being used for those things is not the same as an allotment, which is a very specific piece of rented land.
I have a friend in Eur. and she Has a Flower bed in her small yard plus an Allotment she rides her bike to attend where she grows Vegetable and an Apple tree!
You could definitely get this size home for under $500k. It just depends on the state and which suburb. That's definitely doable in parts of Ohio, Texas, Georgia, Delaware, Virginia, the Carolinas, Nevada, Arizona, etc. You can totally forget about that price in New York or California. Basements are usually the same size as the upstairs. Many people finish 50-75% of their basements and use the rest for storage. What you call terraced homes, we call row houses (usually older) or townhomes (more modern).
I live in a village in Central NY. A home on our street, recently renovated has an unfinished basement, living room, dining room, kitchen and family room 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. The detached garage is double wide, has a workroom/workshop off the back and a full room above the garage. On a fenced 1/2 acre lot. Just over $200k
I think the average US home is 2500 SF. I own an older (1934) Cape Cod that has a basement and garage. The living quarters are 1500 sf. Oddly, people often ask me how do I manage. One person in a 2 story household with a basement is large enough. Have been giving some thought to downsizing when I retire in a few years. THAT house is hardly typical--he is upper income. Gorgeous kitchen. Prices for homes are largely based on location. Looking on either coast, you will pay top dollar. Connecticut is a very expensive state to live and work--plus the taxes--whoa, boy! Love how the owner is so crazy about his dog. Maybe do a series of videos about more typical homes in the US?
Something else I want to add that nobody's really talking about is that you'll have to pay property tax every year on your house, and that cost will depend on how much the cost of your houses is. In addition, you'll have to pay water bill, and sewer bill, electric bill, trash pick up bill and upkeep on your house also. Some neighborhoods require you to pay a neighborhood fee if it's a gated community. You really have to look into all the other fees that are going to be required before purchasing your home. The mortgage is also going to be a fee that you have to pay every month like your rent that a bank has to approve you for. Like someone else already said that you have to make a lot of money to get approved to buy a home that cost this much. What most people do is buy a cheaper home and then they renovate and upgrade the house. Which in most cases it's cheaper to do it this way.
Townhouses are Row houses. There are quite a few in the US. I’m in Florida and there’s a ton. We used to live in a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath townhouse and now we’re in a single family home. More upkeep up we love it.
This is a new build. My childhood neighborhood was build in the 1920s to 30s, Craftsman style. We were middle class. Hilly neighborhood. The garage was in the basement level, & the house is entered via the basement to the back stairs. Back door enroute up. Ground floor front entrance is directly above the garage. (We always had to get a smaller car; & even then, my dad had to exit the passenger side door & walk up the driveway hill to the entrance to the house.) Half the garage length was our front porch. The other half was our solarium/entrance. Where the closet was. From the solarium we enter the dining room, which also contained the "only"telephone (for a long time,physically hardwired into the old house! Imagine the phone company tech's surprise when he could just plug our brand new, necessitated by touch tone, phone into the wall! Anyway, the only phone relocated to the master bedroom, still hardwired in as I'd had to explain to the disbelieving folks helping me move. That phone stayed with the house.) To the right was an outside wall with a small window. I've always wondered why it was small. Across the dining room was a single width door to our small kitchen. Families entertained in the living room, not the kitchen, when the house was built.) The kitchen had 2 entrances: the basement steps & the door to the dining room. For the longest time, each set of cabinets & cupboards was mismatched from each other, signifying different remodeling. Then, in the 80s, we got those horrid false fronts installed with the horizontal handles I hated & still hate. Salesman also talked my folks into wasted money: one of those stickers hood things that, in modern houses, actually carry the steam outside; but ours just blew it back into the kitchen ever our heads! As usual, my parents paid no attention to me when I pointed out the flaw in the hood! Immediately right of the dining room door was a white, gas powered oven/stove, which always had the water filled kettle waiting to be turned on (the burner under it turned on: I'm describing my house circa the 1970s) so they could fix their coffee. Beyond the oven & above the eventual hood were brown wood cupboards & cabinets with aqua(?) formica counters. This led to the kitchen window, with its pretty, lacy curtain. Across from the cupboards/cabinets was a while fridge; & across from the stove was a double sink surrounded by white wooden cabinets & cupboards, where we kept the glasses & plates. The wall to the left featured white metal cabinets (pots & pans, our bread drawer, the drawer devoted to the constant gifts of what I think you'd call tea towels that we never used, since they were too fancy to use! Explanation: my godmother was English from London who'd immigrated to the US in the 1950s, & her family still in London remembered us each Christmas.) The cupboards were the same as over the stove. I was too young to remember the kitchen remodel. Apparently, the fridge used to be behind the basement door! My parents had contractors relocate the door, cutting the pantry in half, & turning the other half into "breakfast room" (i.e., every meal except special occasions) & sewing room. Guess who had custom made costumes as a child??🙋🏻♀ Living room opened off the left side of the dining room. In those days, long before cable TV, we had a cabinet TV & and a cabinet stereo among the furniture along the wall enclosing the back steps. We used to have doorbells that physically chimed! Upstairs is simple: tiny bathroom above the kitchen, my bedroom above the dining room: master bedroom above the living room. Attic access through the tiny linen closet; roof atop the porch & solarium; & atop the pantry. Typical Southern Ohio house build during a certain time period. Big ole pine tree in front I used to pretend was a protective spirit. The attached houses you were talking about are called "row houses," & I've only seen them depicted on TV in NYC & San Francisco.
1) 400-750K Depending on region of the country. 2) The south is cheaper than anywhere else. Texas is great for property/home buying, but don't move there if you are liberal. 3) Double the price if you move north of the mason-dixon line. Unless you move to Montana, North/South Dakota; which, depending on the city, may give you incentives to move there. 4) The price above reflects new-build. You can buy cheap and renovate; but again, depending on the region of the country; it can be pricey.
My house is about 1100 square feet and very normal in Houston, Texas area. The house you just looked at is very probably at least $500, 000 if not more. Most middle to lower class families live in much smaller houses.
Houston is huge so it would depend on where in Houston. I live near JSC and it would easily be $650k+. Not as familiar with other areas of Houston though since I'm still relatively new to the area.
In Texas, we don't have basements, but that house would be under a million, but a little over 1/2 million. Once upon a time in Texas, that house would have been about $300,000, but those days are long gone. Also, usually houses like that one would be in very nice and pretty areas. Texas is constantly building new neighborhoods. Remember, it's Texas, and the land is vast.. 🤠
What you call terraced houses are pretty common in the US -- we call them townhouses or row houses. Some, especially in cities, are quite old, but some are being newly built all the time. I live in one, which was new when I bought it nearly 30 years ago, in a sort of suburb outside a college town. 3 floors, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms.
My house is similar with it's kitchen/living area, but in Fl there are no basements due to the ground water table. I don't know that you can really say there's any "average American home", but there are average homes according to their size, location etc...for example, in subdivisions, housing developments and the like. I live in a housing development/subdivision with about 160 homes where all the houses are similar in style and size. This is very common in suburban areas, but there is so much diversity in homes that you really can't label any one home as the 'typical' or 'average' American home. The region also plays a huge role in the type of housing.
Kabir you need to see our large rural America houses with what we call a yard and you call a garden that requires hours to mow even with a large ride on mower. A trip to the shops is a 45 minute drive each way.
A house like this will vary wildly depending on what part of the country you're in. If you were in the midwest outside a major city, maybe $500k to $600k, but this guy said he is in Connecticut, which is close to NYC and quite pricey, probably in the $1m range. Like someone said, this is upper middle class. You should get on zillow, pick a city and state, and see what the prices are like. They're literally all over the place. I will say we love our big basements, big yards, and big kitchens. We like to spread out
I live in southern rural Indiana (about 45 minutes from Louisville, KY) and my house would probably cost now about $350k-500k depending on how much land it came with. My house, in 2021, was $210k and has 2950 sq ft, 5 bed, 3 bath, with 10 acres of land. Once you get outside the major cities, property with land becomes highly valuable. You can build higher and higher "apartments" but you can never add more sqft of land area. farms/land plots will only ever increase in value forever. best investment you can make.
My parents bought a 1928 home in 1977. In Brooklyn New York. It Is detached, have a driveway, front yard, two car garage, yard in front of the garage, and behind the garage a decent size garden for vegetables, etc. we have three floors plus a basement. Three full baths, two partial baths, and in the basement, in one of the pantries has a tub in it for the other three bathrooms are occupied and you want to take a nice soaking bath. The basement, my father converted one of the rooms into his workshop. They had nothing to do with the rest of the rooms down there. Plenty of closet space. And this house is considered a one family home. Most people envy our house because, it’s not the typical house. We actually had two of them side-by-side, twin houses. The houses shared a yard where you could drive completely around my parents home. My parents had one home and then later I bought the other one. I sold my house for $2.1 million.
That house is typical of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut known as the tri-state area and most of those homes cost between $1-1.5 million typically. As well as house size ie square footage, location is key and if you’re on a direct train line to commute into Manhattan every day. I have lived in houses as big as this one. My uncle and aunty in Michigan had a house as big with a basement about the same size.
Kabir, house pricing is only low in rural areas. If you're okay with moving to the countryside, then you can get a house like that for a relatively low price, but a large house within driving distance of any major city will cost a million or more.
Not true, you could get this house for $500-$700 in the Midwest or the South. There are major cities in those regions. Only near the coasts this house would cost you a million.
@@buckeyegirl16 When I say "major city", I mean cities with a population of 1m+, and when I say "within driving distance", I'm taking into account that a 20 minute drive would be considered 'long' by someone who grew up in the UK. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a home that size with a similar size yard within a 20 min drive of the downtown area of a 1m+ pop city for less than 900k (which is close enough to a million when you include taxes and fees). If you look hard enough, they probably exist, but they'd be the exception.
In the outer outer suburbs of St Louis or Kansas City (Missouri) , a new build house like that would be $350-$500K but you would be looking at an hour commute for any job that paid enough to afford the house. My little 840sqft 2BR 1925 bungalow would fit in this guy's kitchen and family room. 🤣
There’s no such thing as typical. Prices will vary by 3 to 4 times depending on where in the country it is. This is an upscale $1-2 million plus house in a wealthy NYC suburb. In a lower cost area like the Midwest or south it could easily be $500k or even less.
In Silicon Valley a 1960's 1600 sq ft rancher or bungalow style house in need of a total renovation, 2-3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath, 1 car garage on a small lot would start at $1.5 million, if you could find one.
As others have said there is no "average" house. Location is always a factor but even within a single zip code you might find everything from a mansion down to a trailer park. Other factors would include but not be limited to things like square footage, style, lot size, school system, finishes, age, features, taxes, uniqueness, upgrades, etc. To answer your question though Kabir, where I live in central Pennsylvania, which is largely rural and/or suburban with some cities, a somewhat similar house to the Connecticut one with 4BR, 3.5 baths, large kitchen, 4800 sq' (446 sq meters), finished basement, and a pool on a .75 acre lot would run about $900K, but a quick search also turned up properties that were over $1M. As an example of the variety of nearby houses just 3.5 miles away is a perfectly nice 4BR, 2.5 bath, 1800 sq', house on a 1/4 acre lot for just $225K.
I am considered low income. I live alone with just a small dog. My rural house is around 1900 sq ft with a basement. 3bedroom, 3 bath, on half an acre. When I see homes overseas, I realize my home is comparable in size to a middle-upper income over there. Not sure I could used to something much smaller.
I’m I believe that I see a door to the outside from the basement. legally if room has a room has a closet and an egress to the outside. It can be legally be considered to be a bedroom. Bbasmets are the foundation of a house and is the length and Wwdth of the house. The working office size of an office to make money is deductible on taxes.
@@jenniferrogers2492 I live in northern California. The capital is less than three hours from me. I bought a house this size as the smaller ones cost more.
Ct is a state where house values are determined by the neighborhood in which they are located. Because the school districts are community based( as opposed to county based), the value of a house is very heavily linked to the reputation of the community’s school system. This also means higher property tax and a community of higher wage earners!
in North Carolina most homes do not have basements, but this house would go for around $700,000 but it would be on a smaller lot in Greensboro a city of about 275,000 residents
There are lots of row homes around the Philly area. Nowadays they get called townhouses to classy them up. Most were built late 1800s into the 1900s as homes for the workers when there were a lot of factories.
Depends where you are. If in Florida like I am, waterfront is the most expensive.. Sold my childhood home on the water for 3.275M USD, and we sold it as a lot bc the house needed so much work it most likely would have to be rebuilt.
I'm with you on the kitchen. That is a make it or break it deal for me. It has to be spacious, well designed with plenty of cupboard and counter space because I do food preparation and/or cooking pretty much every day, often multiple times each day.
AVERAGE?! these are rich people in my book lmao for me as an American an Average house is just 2-3 bedrooms two stories, a medium sized kitchen and and medium sized living room.
As everyone else has stated, that is not an average home in America. And it very much depends on where you live. Fortunately, where I live, the cost of living is low. The median price of a house is $280,000. So, you've got to think about the kind of life you want to live and what you're willing to pay to maintain that lifestyle.
Before its size was increased more than 50% by an addition, my 1950s ranch house could have been described as "average." The dimensions were 40 feet by 24 feet (960 sq. ft, 89 sq. meters). There were 3 bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room, and a combination kitchen/dining area. It has a now-finished basement (nearly 960 sq. ft.) and had an attached one-car garage which was demolished to make room for the addition.
I agree that he furnished the house well. He used color and texture to create warmth while keeping things simple. I'm so tired of everything being off white, taupe, and mushroom.
I’ve seen this tour on a few channels and THIS is not a tour of an average American house. I am American born in California, raised in Texas and this is a Connecticut house which is a very different market… real estate market, design, price point and land mass.
Connecticut has many varieties of houses and apartments. That is the same for most places. Terrace houses are very common in many suburban areas of different states. The thing is: a place in NYC might be relatively smaller than one in the state of Texas. And significantly smaller than many rural parts of New York State (upstate and long island). But the cost in nyc is much more. Same with California. The closest the US has to England would be Massachusetts. And even then, small houses can be extremely expensive. Big houses - astronomical.
In Cincinnati this house would go for upwards of 650K. Lot size and location would also be a factor in the price. This is a very nice upper class house and definitely not a typical middle class abode.
This is way more extravagant than the average house. This house shown is probably 2.2+million dollars . The kitchen is way bigger than average and they have expensive Wayne's coating on all of the walls. Sadly the average house in Florida is close to $500.000 for a 1200 sqft, and it's 15- 20 years old. Great content Kabir
Kitchens are large and open now because that's where we hang out. That front room won't get used much. I just walked past mine. It's the family room kitchen where all your living time is spent with family and with friends. The formal dining room also doesn't get used. Maybe for Christmas or Thanksgiving. I put a puzzle out on my dining room table the rest of the time
You can get 4 bedroom homes for about $300K-$400K with full features and $250K-$350K with less features (special lighting, recessed ceiling etc).You can find new homes in new developments and if you get in early they can sometimes grant you custom builds. Texas has quite a few such developments about 50 miles ouside of Dallas, Huston etc. Thats a perfect distance from growing cities because it takes a few years until the city gets closer. Your property will increase in value as the city gets closer. Sometimes the property will be enough value by then to sell and payoff and get another with a huge down payment which will lower your mortgage payments. (And it is nice to be the first to live in your home)
I live in a 3br /3 bathroom rancher in North Carolina. The price of a house can vary from state to state and whether the house is in a large city or in the suburbs. $149,000 to around $367,000 for a one story rancher in NC and some have large yards.
I am about an hour from downtown Seattle. We don't have basements out here. In my neighborhood, that house without the attic or basement, on an acer of land, would run maybe $1m or slightly more. In Seattle proper, on a small lot, that would be closer to $2m. I also would consider it an above average, entry level luxury home for my area. However, in a rural area in the Midwest (with basement & attic), $500k or even less would not surprise me.
Here's how it works Kabir. In the USA, the price of Real Estate (or a home) is dependent upon the price of homes in the immediate vicinity. A distance of as little as 1 mile can mean a difference in price of about $100,000.00 (or more) for the same exact model. It all depends on the location, and as every Real Estate agent will tell you, the three most important factors in choosing a house is 1. Location, 2. Location and 3. Location. I've purchased 3 different homes in my lifetime and spent a considerable amount of time house-hunting in each case. My current home is a bit smaller than in this video, but I have 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, Kitchen, breakfast area, dining room, living room and an entertainment/family room, 2 car heated garage and all on almost 3/4 of an acre of land. I have 100' of frontage up to the road and about as much behind the house leading into the forest. I bought this home in 2013 for $140,000.00. You start out small Kabir buying an inexpensive home, gain equity for several years and sell it for a profit which allows you to put a bigger down payment on a bigger home. Continue this process until you find the house you wish to remain in. Easy peesy.😉
That is the "typical" American plan. It has worked for many people, as long as they don't lose their job or have health issues or catastrophic life events.
@@dorirobertson4539 Yes it is the typical plan, and all those issue you mention will effect everything in a person's life, the least of which would be home-buying. In other words, it goes without saying, hence I didn't say it.
Basements are included where there's a lot of snow. If you buy a house where it does not snow very much or not at all, don't expect any basement at all.
I would say the average normal American house is 1/2 that size. Something like that house 4 bedroom 3 bath 2144 sqft in Minneapolis Minnesota will run you $525K.
I'm from Illinois, and that house would cost around $200K in the southern part of the state, and probably around $4-500K the closer you get to Chicago or St. Louis.
Only $200K for an equivalent house to this? GTFO, no way. I know Middle America is cheaper but that's insane if you think money will stretch that far in this market.
We have an unattached home. Built on concrete foundation with brick exterior walls. Square footage is about 1300. It’s just my wife and I and it’s a 2 bedroom, one bath home. 2 car covered parking, utility/laundry room, kitchen, dinning room, and living room. Water heater, stove, and central heat are natural gas. American mobile homes are generally small and affordable. If maintained, a mobile home can last for more than 20 years.
Just took a yardstick and measured my kitchen. It's 3 yards plus 27" wide X 6 yard plus 12 inches long. A yard is 36 inches. One end I use for my kitchen table and chairs. I have a counter on the back wall that spands the whole length of the kitchen and up and down wall cabinets that spand the length, except for two windows to the back yard. It's not a real big kitchen but it's big enough for me. I have a bar in the center of the appliance section - fridge, gas range, and the dish washer under the counter on back wall.
In California this house would be well over a couple of million.. My house in northern Calif is a simple 3 bedroom 2 bath in a suburb currently worth a bit over 650 thousand. It's nothing special but we really are used to more space than in many countries. That house shown is beautiful and pretty big. Obviously there is no average home in the USA. California is not very affordable.
In my hometown of Omaha, NE, my best guess is, that home would list for somewhere between $700k and $1 million. Factors that would impact the asking price: precise square footage, closet/wardrobe space, and the school district. Property taxes for that home would run from $12k-$20k, depending on the county's valuation. Our property taxes are payable in equal installments, twice per year.
I bought a 1980s Ranch style home that had six bedrooms, three baths and a kitchen that size. I bought it in 2000 for $125,000 in Sacramento, CA. I sold it in 2022 for $560,000. So still very affordable for its size and location.
This is NOT a typical home in the US. When they build what the UK calls a housing estate, most of the homes are 3 or maybe 4 bedroom with 2 or 2.5 baths. If there is a basement, it is unfinished and attics don't even have floors, or only a small space with maybe 1 or 2 sheets of 4' X 8' plywood or chipboard laid down for flooring. The HVAC duct work is usually not in the attic or basement. Usually there is either a eat-in kitchen or informal dining area, but bot a separate formal dining room.
I live in Santa Cruz, California. A mobile home here (i think you call that a caravan?) Would be 350-450 thousand $ A house like the one in your video would be well over a million dollars, possibly 2 million.
Kabir when you ask us questions specifically like how much does a single person spend for groceries a week. That depends on the person and where they live? Whats an average house where I’m from in Pennsylvania can be totally different in the same state but in a different city. You have to ask someone from the exact city you would be interested in America and ask specifically what type of home you would like to live in. You have to say if you want good schools,shops around and entertainment. America is about location,location and the size of land it sits on. That determines price in America.
Nowadays here in owatonna Minnesota the houses are around $260,000 - $600,000 but that’s because of the fact that owatonna is expanding in size so we’re getting more people more different income ranges so everything’s going up it’s not just inflation. federated insurance, which is the biggest company here in Owatonna, Minnesota has chipped in to revitalize downtown Owatonna. So we have new hotels and apartments and townhomes being built right now mean you can get a cheap land lot and build a house. Land lots here are starting as low as $48,000 up
In my city this house would go for several million but you can get this in other areas of my state for 400K-500K. You can also get this house for far less than a million in other States, it just depends on where in the country you're willing to move. This area is the Mid Atlantic area so prices are going to be very high, but if you start going South, South West or Mid-West the prices can get much lower. So for Instance you could get a similar house in Delaware, NC, SC, Virginia on new construction between 400K - 500K for 2000sqft - 2500 sq ft, existing construction can run even less and if you want 2 BR that can run under 300-400K.
Most of our homes are single family homes, aka detached. That is a basic middle class home. It is not at all an upper middle class level home. Many people in comments tend to confuse very small, or lower/working class homes with middle class homes. This home is basic middle class.
This home would be middle class in the less expensive areas of the country, but since it’s in Connecticut, I would think it to be upper middle class simply because it’s in a much more expensive area of the country, where instead of 500k, this home would cost closer to $1 million.
Most cities have Town Homes or Row Houses (Terraced housing) in High Density housing areas. Even places like Provo, Utah and Springfield, Missouri and Peoria, Illinois. It's common housing everywhere. A nice step between renting an apartment and owning your own house, house. They're usually quite a bit cheaper than free standing homes.
On the low end you could have a 2000 sq. ft. house built in Texas for 150,000.00-190,000.00. An average house built in Texas depends on the stories starting at 200,000.00-375,000.00. for Modular homes it runs around 250,000.00-500,000.00 for stick built.
Condominiums are like modern row houses like 8 units per complex for example. Make sure you get one with concrete walls separating the apartments for sound control. Try South Carolina or Georgia. Now is not a good time to buy because the prices or out of sight and the mortgage rates a terrible, but what goes up will come done. There are real estate agents who deal internationally. Find one, pick an area and see what info they can give you. As for the house you're reviewing, you have to be making a good living for a home like that, and he's obviously making money.
I live in a terraced house. We call them row houses, and yes, I’m in NY. If this house is in Westport, Weston, Stamford, New Canaan, CT is closer to $2M. Property taxes there are insane as well.
AND another thing in the huge house, my guy friend made an Air B&B in PART of his basement. So, he has added income. A house with unfinished basement etc costs less and over time, you finish it and the value of your home goes way up.
Pennsylvania has row houses. I believe that is what you were thinking about. A big block. We have Ranchers in many states, Split level homes, and Colonials. Then there’s town houses and condos, and apartments. Some home developments have a mix of condos and town houses. Other home developments have mixes of various houses - one floors, like ranch. Where my Dad used to live, there were split level and colonials.
The cost of the house is often dependent on what state it is located in. The house I lived in when I was in Midwest was brand new, not much smaller than this one (one less bedroom but the bedrooms were larger than the ones in this house) with the same huge basement with extra high ceilings and a large attic but it was the same price as an older, much smaller and less fancy place in California. Land is very expenisive in certain states and not in others. The yard in California was small, the yard alone with the Midwest house was an acre, so there is a huge difference in prices across the USA. That large basement can become an entire apartment and be rented out. The place I lived in had its own entrance to the basement so that could have been a future build.
A typical home here in Arizona is single detached house. Property size is .5 acre with 3 car garages. Many homes have more acreage. Average sizes are about 2,500 square footage.
I live in a rather small house that’s a little over 1000 square feet, on a quarter of an acre lot. 2 bedroom One bathroom Was originally a camper trailer that the owners built onto back in the 70s You can definitely tell because the house hasn’t been updated since the 70s Fully fenced front and back yard Basement Carport Nice little single person or couple house
If you want to see a closer approximation of an average house, watch a few episodes of Home Town. Especially the early seasons. It just depends on what you need. Smaller towns are a little easier on the wallet, but may involve a commute.
There is no average or “typical” house in America. They come in all different styles and sizes.
This! The house in this video is 3x the size, I feel, than most homes in the US. This is also one of those McMansions that aren't worth the land they're built on.
@tricitymorte1 This is average in many areas in Cali and Texas. Under a million in TX and over a million in Cali.
Yes, the average home varies greatly from region to region, state to state, and even neighborhood to neighborhood.
@@tricitymorte1 I would not call this a McMansion. This looks like a pretty well built home. Most of those McMansions are way bigger than a house like this. Most Mc mansions were built poorly. a lot of unused space and wasted space. This is a pretty well-designed and constructed home and it’s in Connecticut. The roof line is a little strange and might fall in line with a McMansion seems to be one Style of design not multitude of different styles. But it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of wasted space. Connecticut was not a state of McMansions. It’s one of the wealthiest states in the country.
This house is not big. It's a regular 3 bedroom house with little land in a good neighborhood
Take what you see on the interwebs with a grain of salt Kabir. This is upper middle class. Very nice home, he earned the flex.
Regular 3 bedroom. Little land. Small yard. Nice neighborhood
This is solidly middle class in New England. Fairly average in New Hampshire. $400-$600,000 house.
@@chrisr267 Not a chance its middle class. This is the lower end of upper class. this dude makes good money.
@@catlady443 Don't know what to tell you. I'm solidly middle class, and this is similar to what my house looks like. I make $113,000/year. New England states average anywhere from $73,000-$90,000 a year in household income. Houses like this are very common.
Not even upper middle class can afford these anymore. The real estate market is out of control. Greedy agents making absolutely disgusting commissions. It’s sad how greed is destroying homeownership.
A "typical" house in my small town in South Carolina is a 3 bedroom house with maybe 1500 sq. ft. They sell for about $250,000. We bought our 3 bedroom house for $80,000 in 1994! We've spent probably $100,000 over the 30 years we've lived here redoing every room and adding a bonus room and a detached screen porch in the back yard. it's on a .75 acre lot. We could sell it now for $250,000. I saw a big 4 bedroom house on a .8 acre lot with a 3 car garage selling for $680,000 in the ritzy neighborhood in town.
That house is NOT a typical American house. That house is the dream. As others have said, price varies greatly depending on the area. I'm in Virginia and our house is less than 1100 square feet.
That's the smaller dream... that's a nice home for Upper Middle Class folks. You get into the homes that lower upper class folks or middle upper class or even Upper upper class that might resemble a "shitehole" by comparison, granted a NICE shitehole, but....
Does everyone live in small apartment's? It's a regular 3 bedroom with a small yard. The neighborhood is nice
@@Tbone1492 I do lmao. but I grew up in a reg house and even though it had 3 bedrooms and two floors it was NOWHERE near this large and spacious
I live in Northern Virginia just outside the DC beltway. That house is a new build. In Vienna, VA it would run about 1-1.5 mil, depending on the lot. In Southwestern or Central VA (away from the cities), it would be closer to $7-800,000, depending on the lot.
@@Tbone1492Also, no. I do not live in an apartment. Kabir counted 4 bedrooms in that house. My house has 6 and is on 1 acre. Can't wait to downsize. Be careful what you wish for, people.
Connecticut is a wealthy state, and this is probably in a suburb of NYC which are among the nicest places you can live in the country. According to Nick he paid $1.2 million for this house.
IN CT, that makes sense, esp w/ the size his lot is.
It's Fairfield CT. Regular 3 bedroom. Small yard. Nice neighborhood
@@Tbone1492Wow you are all over the comments. Your on a mission
The lot is very small, but this is Fairfield county so the prices are higher than the rest of the state
I live in Connecticut, I'm from Detroit. The lower southwest corner of CT is pricey and is where the money lives. The rest of the state is quite average to poor. It's not a big money state any longer, just the SW corner near NYC and a few places on the shoreline.
This guy has done more than one post about his house. In one he said it was worth 1 million dollars. It is probably worth more nowadays. It is NOT typical.
In Texas & areas of Arizona, New Mexico, areas throughout the South & Midwest; yes, you could get a house & yard of that size for around $500k. Anywhere in the Northeastern US or California, absolutely not. Decide on the kind of climate and proximity to shops, transportation, schools, etc, before buying anything.
Remember, the US is a *huge* country. If I recall correctly, England is approximately the size of the state of Oregon. We have all sorts of weather as well as terrain extremes, cities, mountains, desert, swamp, & rural areas. Visit various areas first. Get to know the people and the area first, especially before you move countries.🙂
Ok, I looked up this home. It’s 3100 sq ft.,; the average American home is 2,300 sq ft. Sold for more than $900,000; current value is estimated at 1.4-1.8 million, depending on the website. Definitely not average.
also literally more expensive than the uk. People are just more accustomed to expensive houses in the usa. You can asbolutely go anywhere outside london and get a massive house for under 500k if you wanted. People in the uk just dont care about large homes, we prefer community and walkability and living near public transport and theaters etc etc.
@@WookieWarriorz I don't know where you the idea that you can this type of home for under 500k in the UK. Just a quick search, if we use Zillow, I could find houses 1.5 hrs away from the city of Chicago that are under 500k that have 6 acres of land or have large yards that are much bigger than what's shown here. Keep in mind this is the Midwest that's hour or so away from a major metro area.
What's shown in the video is the suburbs of Connecticut, not small town or rural town.
>we prefer community and walkability and living near public transport and theaters etc etc.
You mean you're use to smaller homes. Half you people don't even give two shits about the theater let alone public transportation given the automobile is the main mode of transportation in the UK. You also conveniently leave out the fact that cities in the UK are far more denser than American cities as well as your suburbs, so it's not like you Brits demand what is already in place.
@@WookieWarriorz There’s still some in the US that like the walkability factor too. There’s 2 subdivisions down the road from us [built years after we moved here] that have stores on both sides, a promised theatre. I knew of one person that wrote saying they moved there for the theatre. Many promises from town for just that. Enter 2024, still no theatre. It’s been over 10 years. That same person wrote note to local paper saying they moved to an area that offers much more. That area was originally intended to be one with a decent public access but somewhere along politics played into it and well, never ends well. The theatre that the said people could go to instead, has since closed down. Now the next best place, The Alamo, is a 30 minutes “drive”. Spouse and I have always hoped that they would put a BJ Brew/Restaurant in that area but that has not happened. We have to drive 30 minutes north to get to that as well. I know my spouse would stop there. We do have at least one in that area that we go to on occasion, perhaps once a year, if that. It just gets too expensive eating at restaurants anymore.
That's like 3 times the size of my house
This is a lot nicer than most American houses. I paid around $150,000 for my house in Oklahoma - big kitchen, 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 living areas, laundry rm, 1 car garage w huge backyard. It’s an older home & I purchased about 6 yrs ago so I’m sure it’s gone way up since then.
I'm NE of OKC. We bought our home in '94 (?) for $60,000 fully furnished.1600sf, 3 beds, 1.5 baths, 2 living rooms and 2 car garage. We sit on a 1 acre corner lot.
My house is similar- two levels plus basement and attic- and likely around the same square foot (mine is about 3500 sq ft)
It has an attached two car garage, and a detached shop. On two acres with a small river through the back of the land.
We bought it in 2020 for 250k, luckily right before the buying frenzy.
Our neighbor purchased a similar home around the same time for around the same price and he just sold for 600k
I said all that to say, at one point, you could find a lot of homes like this for under 300k. Today? Absolutely not.
This house is in Connecticut and if you were to purchase it in the northeast it would probably at least a million dollars. I live in the deep south and if you were to purchase a home like this (depending on whether or not it was in the city of a rural area) would probably cost you in the area of $400,000 to $500,000.
so even in the rural south it still costs similar to the uk. Seriously this is like a £300k -£400 house in the uk too (outside of london)
@@WookieWarriorz I've been looking for a home in the UK. What areas? This would be at least 800k
I’m in Mississippi and a full brick Southern Traditional home with a wrap around porch, 4 beds, 3 baths, in ground pool, and 3 car garage on 15 acres on my road just sold for $450,000.00.
Yep! The south is less expensive.
Right now where I am, Midwest, it is 650,000 - 750,000.
I'm happy for this man, he's obviously done very well for himself. But that is not average. That's above average. That's house is hundreds of thousands of dollars more expensive than most.
This house, with the yard upgrade, etc. is way over a million. This is in Connecticut and therefore a "bedroom community" for commuting to NYC.
In Vegas we wouldn’t have the basement but otherwise it would cost $550-750k depending on the neighborhood
lots of areas like Vegas outside the NE and Cali.
I've worked for 25 years and own a home, and I DREAM of a house like that. The housing market in the US is absolutely insane right now. Many people dream of owning at all because their high rent and local house prices make it impossible to save up enough to buy, let alone afford the taxes and mortgage payments. I'm a weirdo who doesn't want anything over 1500-1800 square feet. This house is enormous to me. In my southern city, it would cost MINIMUM $450,000 in a nice area. In a less desirable neighborhood, $300,000 if it is updated like this one.
The long row of conjoined houses is called a "Row House". They are older and common in the large cities of the east coast...DC. Baltimore, Philly..NYC etc.
There are quite a few neighborhoods of what we call townhouses (row houses). Southern Maryland is a suburb of Washington DC, where I live.
nope theyre called terraced.
I don’t think he spent enough time NYC when he went because row house are everywhere in everywhere especially brooklyn
Nearly all of the new builds in the DC suburbs now are townhouses and condos, so they’re not all older homes, especially in the suburbs. They only tend to be older in the middle of cities.
It’s a lovely house, but as a fellow resident of Connecticut I will say it’s not just the value of the house (expensive), but the income needed to sustain it. Property taxes vary greatly in various parts of the U.S., and Connecticut has some of the highest in the country. It’s also in the north, so there are winter heating costs to factor in as well as electricity/water.
This house has a yard or a lawn, Americans do not call grass a garden. What you call an allotment, we call a garden. Our gardens emphasize flowers or vegetables, not grass. We mow the yard, not the garden.
An 'allotment' is a very specific thing in the UK. It's a small rented section of a large municipally owned area of land, not within your own property but at a location perhaps half a mile or more from your home, which you are allowed to cultivate as you wish. Most people use it to grrow edibles, but others use part of it to grow flowers. People often have to wait years on a waiting list to get allocated an allotment.
@@carolineskipper6976 I think that's what the person is saying. In the US when we say GARDEN, it means a garden bed... and it would hold the things you grow in an allotment. Our YARD would hold the things you have in a 'garden' of a house.
@@jtidema I get that. But a part of your ' yard' at home being used for those things is not the same as an allotment, which is a very specific piece of rented land.
I have a friend in Eur. and she Has a Flower bed in her small yard plus an Allotment she rides her bike to attend where she grows Vegetable and an Apple tree!
Definitely not an average house. In my area that's easily a 900k house. Average here is a 3 bedroom 1-2 baths 1000 square foot house.
You could definitely get this size home for under $500k. It just depends on the state and which suburb. That's definitely doable in parts of Ohio, Texas, Georgia, Delaware, Virginia, the Carolinas, Nevada, Arizona, etc. You can totally forget about that price in New York or California.
Basements are usually the same size as the upstairs. Many people finish 50-75% of their basements and use the rest for storage. What you call terraced homes, we call row houses (usually older) or townhomes (more modern).
I live in a village in Central NY. A home on our street, recently renovated has an unfinished basement, living room, dining room, kitchen and family room 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. The detached garage is double wide, has a workroom/workshop off the back and a full room above the garage. On a fenced 1/2 acre lot. Just over $200k
What you call terraced houses are usually called townhomes here.
Yes, or row houses.
Came here to say the same exact thing.
I think the average US home is 2500 SF. I own an older (1934) Cape Cod that has a basement and garage. The living quarters are 1500 sf. Oddly, people often ask me how do I manage. One person in a 2 story household with a basement is large enough. Have been giving some thought to downsizing when I retire in a few years.
THAT house is hardly typical--he is upper income. Gorgeous kitchen. Prices for homes are largely based on location. Looking on either coast, you will pay top dollar. Connecticut is a very expensive state to live and work--plus the taxes--whoa, boy! Love how the owner is so crazy about his dog. Maybe do a series of videos about more typical homes in the US?
Something else I want to add that nobody's really talking about is that you'll have to pay property tax every year on your house, and that cost will depend on how much the cost of your houses is. In addition, you'll have to pay water bill, and sewer bill, electric bill, trash pick up bill and upkeep on your house also. Some neighborhoods require you to pay a neighborhood fee if it's a gated community. You really have to look into all the other fees that are going to be required before purchasing your home. The mortgage is also going to be a fee that you have to pay every month like your rent that a bank has to approve you for. Like someone else already said that you have to make a lot of money to get approved to buy a home that cost this much. What most people do is buy a cheaper home and then they renovate and upgrade the house. Which in most cases it's cheaper to do it this way.
Townhouses are Row houses. There are quite a few in the US. I’m in Florida and there’s a ton. We used to live in a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath townhouse and now we’re in a single family home. More upkeep up we love it.
This is a new build. My childhood neighborhood was build in the 1920s to 30s, Craftsman style. We were middle class.
Hilly neighborhood. The garage was in the basement level, & the house is entered via the basement to the back stairs. Back door enroute up.
Ground floor front entrance is directly above the garage. (We always had to get a smaller car; & even then, my dad had to exit the passenger side door & walk up the driveway hill to the entrance to the house.) Half the garage length was our front porch. The other half was our solarium/entrance. Where the closet was.
From the solarium we enter the dining room, which also contained the "only"telephone (for a long time,physically hardwired into the old house! Imagine the phone company tech's surprise when he could just plug our brand new, necessitated by touch tone, phone into the wall! Anyway, the only phone relocated to the master bedroom, still hardwired in as I'd had to explain to the disbelieving folks helping me move. That phone stayed with the house.)
To the right was an outside wall with a small window. I've always wondered why it was small. Across the dining room was a single width door to our small kitchen. Families entertained in the living room, not the kitchen, when the house was built.)
The kitchen had 2 entrances: the basement steps & the door to the dining room. For the longest time, each set of cabinets & cupboards was mismatched from each other, signifying different remodeling. Then, in the 80s, we got those horrid false fronts installed with the horizontal handles I hated & still hate. Salesman also talked my folks into wasted money: one of those stickers hood things that, in modern houses, actually carry the steam outside; but ours just blew it back into the kitchen ever our heads! As usual, my parents paid no attention to me when I pointed out the flaw in the hood!
Immediately right of the dining room door was a white, gas powered oven/stove, which always had the water filled kettle waiting to be turned on (the burner under it turned on: I'm describing my house circa the 1970s) so they could fix their coffee. Beyond the oven & above the eventual hood were brown wood cupboards & cabinets with aqua(?) formica counters. This led to the kitchen window, with its pretty, lacy curtain. Across from the cupboards/cabinets was a while fridge; & across from the stove was a double sink surrounded by white wooden cabinets & cupboards, where we kept the glasses & plates. The wall to the left featured white metal cabinets (pots & pans, our bread drawer, the drawer devoted to the constant gifts of what I think you'd call tea towels that we never used, since they were too fancy to use! Explanation: my godmother was English from London who'd immigrated to the US in the 1950s, & her family still in London remembered us each Christmas.) The cupboards were the same as over the stove.
I was too young to remember the kitchen remodel. Apparently, the fridge used to be behind the basement door! My parents had contractors relocate the door, cutting the pantry in half, & turning the other half into "breakfast room" (i.e., every meal except special occasions) & sewing room. Guess who had custom made costumes as a child??🙋🏻♀
Living room opened off the left side of the dining room. In those days, long before cable TV, we had a cabinet TV & and a cabinet stereo among the furniture along the wall enclosing the back steps. We used to have doorbells that physically chimed!
Upstairs is simple: tiny bathroom above the kitchen, my bedroom above the dining room: master bedroom above the living room. Attic access through the tiny linen closet; roof atop the porch & solarium; & atop the pantry.
Typical Southern Ohio house build during a certain time period. Big ole pine tree in front I used to pretend was a protective spirit.
The attached houses you were talking about are called "row houses," & I've only seen them depicted on TV in NYC & San Francisco.
I don't know that there is a typical American house, But this one is definitely upper income. He's definitely flexing.
I think this house is in bad taste.
It may cost like upper income, but a front facing garage is definitely not upper income
1) 400-750K Depending on region of the country.
2) The south is cheaper than anywhere else. Texas is great for property/home buying, but don't move there if you are liberal.
3) Double the price if you move north of the mason-dixon line. Unless you move to Montana, North/South Dakota; which, depending on the city, may give you incentives to move there.
4) The price above reflects new-build. You can buy cheap and renovate; but again, depending on the region of the country; it can be pricey.
yes, please stay in a blue state if you are liberal
My house is about 1100 square feet and very normal in Houston, Texas area. The house you just looked at is very probably at least $500, 000 if not more. Most middle to lower class families live in much smaller houses.
Way off....$1.2M.
Houston is huge so it would depend on where in Houston. I live near JSC and it would easily be $650k+. Not as familiar with other areas of Houston though since I'm still relatively new to the area.
In Texas, we don't have basements, but that house would be under a million, but a little over 1/2 million. Once upon a time in Texas, that house would have been about $300,000, but those days are long gone. Also, usually houses like that one would be in very nice and pretty areas. Texas is constantly building new neighborhoods. Remember, it's Texas, and the land is vast.. 🤠
Every area of the country has different styles and prices of homes, and then you add yearly property taxes.
What you call terraced houses are pretty common in the US -- we call them townhouses or row houses. Some, especially in cities, are quite old, but some are being newly built all the time. I live in one, which was new when I bought it nearly 30 years ago, in a sort of suburb outside a college town. 3 floors, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms.
My house is similar with it's kitchen/living area, but in Fl there are no basements due to the ground water table. I don't know that you can really say there's any "average American home", but there are average homes according to their size, location etc...for example, in subdivisions, housing developments and the like. I live in a housing development/subdivision with about 160 homes where all the houses are similar in style and size. This is very common in suburban areas, but there is so much diversity in homes that you really can't label any one home as the 'typical' or 'average' American home. The region also plays a huge role in the type of housing.
I have a basement here in Florida. So do many of my neighbors. But, we are on pretty good size hills and our houses are older.
Very nice explanation of "average " American homes! 🏡
Kabir you need to see our large rural America houses with what we call a yard and you call a garden that requires hours to mow even with a large ride on mower. A trip to the shops is a 45 minute drive each way.
A house like this will vary wildly depending on what part of the country you're in. If you were in the midwest outside a major city, maybe $500k to $600k, but this guy said he is in Connecticut, which is close to NYC and quite pricey, probably in the $1m range. Like someone said, this is upper middle class. You should get on zillow, pick a city and state, and see what the prices are like. They're literally all over the place. I will say we love our big basements, big yards, and big kitchens. We like to spread out
I live in southern rural Indiana (about 45 minutes from Louisville, KY) and my house would probably cost now about $350k-500k depending on how much land it came with. My house, in 2021, was $210k and has 2950 sq ft, 5 bed, 3 bath, with 10 acres of land. Once you get outside the major cities, property with land becomes highly valuable. You can build higher and higher "apartments" but you can never add more sqft of land area. farms/land plots will only ever increase in value forever. best investment you can make.
My parents bought a 1928 home in 1977. In Brooklyn New York. It Is detached, have a driveway, front yard, two car garage, yard in front of the garage, and behind the garage a decent size garden for vegetables, etc. we have three floors plus a basement. Three full baths, two partial baths, and in the basement, in one of the pantries has a tub in it for the other three bathrooms are occupied and you want to take a nice soaking bath. The basement, my father converted one of the rooms into his workshop. They had nothing to do with the rest of the rooms down there. Plenty of closet space. And this house is considered a one family home. Most people envy our house because, it’s not the typical house. We actually had two of them side-by-side, twin houses. The houses shared a yard where you could drive completely around my parents home. My parents had one home and then later I bought the other one. I sold my house for $2.1 million.
Ha, we don't call a lawn a garden. A garden grows flowers or vegetables. Ha.
That house is typical of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut known as the tri-state area and most of those homes cost between $1-1.5 million typically. As well as house size ie square footage, location is key and if you’re on a direct train line to commute into Manhattan every day. I have lived in houses as big as this one. My uncle and aunty in Michigan had a house as big with a basement about the same size.
Mine was 1799 sq.ft. now is 400 sq. ft.. much less to clean and in the mountains, so peaceful......
Similar situation. From 1900 sq. ft. to 800. Retired and don't want to spend to keep it up.
Kabir, house pricing is only low in rural areas. If you're okay with moving to the countryside, then you can get a house like that for a relatively low price, but a large house within driving distance of any major city will cost a million or more.
Not true, you could get this house for $500-$700 in the Midwest or the South. There are major cities in those regions. Only near the coasts this house would cost you a million.
@@buckeyegirl16 When I say "major city", I mean cities with a population of 1m+, and when I say "within driving distance", I'm taking into account that a 20 minute drive would be considered 'long' by someone who grew up in the UK. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a home that size with a similar size yard within a 20 min drive of the downtown area of a 1m+ pop city for less than 900k (which is close enough to a million when you include taxes and fees). If you look hard enough, they probably exist, but they'd be the exception.
This house in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would be about $300,000. On the lake $400,000
Maybe 15 years ago lol
@@alexanderthenotsogreat6991 Not in the UP up by Canada. Your money goes really far there
In the outer outer suburbs of St Louis or Kansas City (Missouri) , a new build house like that would be $350-$500K but you would be looking at an hour commute for any job that paid enough to afford the house.
My little 840sqft 2BR 1925 bungalow would fit in this guy's kitchen and family room. 🤣
There’s no such thing as typical. Prices will vary by 3 to 4 times depending on where in the country it is. This is an upscale $1-2 million plus house in a wealthy NYC suburb. In a lower cost area like the Midwest or south it could easily be $500k or even less.
In Silicon Valley a 1960's 1600 sq ft rancher or bungalow style house in need of a total renovation, 2-3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath, 1 car garage on a small lot would start at $1.5 million, if you could find one.
@@milliway2010 More than that actually. My sister's tiny 2 bed 1 bath 900 square foot house in San Carlos is worth $1.6 million.
CT is a rich state so the newer homes are bigger. Attached homes in the USA are Townhomes (suburbs) or RowHomes (city).
As others have said there is no "average" house. Location is always a factor but even within a single zip code you might find everything from a mansion down to a trailer park. Other factors would include but not be limited to things like square footage, style, lot size, school system, finishes, age, features, taxes, uniqueness, upgrades, etc. To answer your question though Kabir, where I live in central Pennsylvania, which is largely rural and/or suburban with some cities, a somewhat similar house to the Connecticut one with 4BR, 3.5 baths, large kitchen, 4800 sq' (446 sq meters), finished basement, and a pool on a .75 acre lot would run about $900K, but a quick search also turned up properties that were over $1M. As an example of the variety of nearby houses just 3.5 miles away is a perfectly nice 4BR, 2.5 bath, 1800 sq', house on a 1/4 acre lot for just $225K.
I am considered low income. I live alone with just a small dog. My rural house is around 1900 sq ft with a basement. 3bedroom, 3 bath, on half an acre. When I see homes overseas, I realize my home is comparable in size to a middle-upper income over there. Not sure I could used to something much smaller.
That is huge for me. Good for you. Enjoy.
I’m I believe that I see a door to the outside from the basement. legally if room has a room has a closet and an egress to the outside. It can be legally be considered to be a bedroom. Bbasmets are the foundation of a house and is the length and Wwdth of the house. The working office size of an office to make money is deductible on taxes.
That’s another thing that determines the price of a house-which state you live in, & proximity to a major city.
@@jenniferrogers2492 I live in northern California. The capital is less than three hours from me. I bought a house this size as the smaller ones cost more.
The three most important words in real estate….Location, location, location.
"No HOA" is also a major selling point.
This is not "average" by any means. J.
IT MIGHT be 'average in CT... MAYBE... but yeah the Aussie (NZer?) don't know.
I wonder how they keep the house clean? 😢
Ct is a state where house values are determined by the neighborhood in which they are located. Because the school districts are community based( as opposed to county based), the value of a house is very heavily linked to the reputation of the community’s school system. This also means higher property tax and a community of higher wage earners!
Same here. And if your house is tax assessed at 1mil+, there's an additional county tax above regular county tax.
in North Carolina most homes do not have basements, but this house would go for around $700,000 but it would be on a smaller lot in Greensboro a city of about 275,000 residents
There are lots of row homes around the Philly area. Nowadays they get called townhouses to classy them up. Most were built late 1800s into the 1900s as homes for the workers when there were a lot of factories.
Depends where you are. If in Florida like I am, waterfront is the most expensive.. Sold my childhood home on the water for 3.275M USD, and we sold it as a lot bc the house needed so much work it most likely would have to be rebuilt.
That’s pretty nice for average. When I think of average home in the US, I think of a 50s bungalow.
I agree. It seems much larger and newer than average.
I'm with you on the kitchen. That is a make it or break it deal for me. It has to be spacious, well designed with plenty of cupboard and counter space because I do food preparation and/or cooking pretty much every day, often multiple times each day.
In America those homes are called row homes, we have them just not very many, San Fransisco has many.
AVERAGE?! these are rich people in my book lmao
for me as an American an Average house is just 2-3 bedrooms two stories, a medium sized kitchen and and medium sized living room.
As everyone else has stated, that is not an average home in America. And it very much depends on where you live. Fortunately, where I live, the cost of living is low. The median price of a house is $280,000. So, you've got to think about the kind of life you want to live and what you're willing to pay to maintain that lifestyle.
Before its size was increased more than 50% by an addition, my 1950s ranch house could have been described as "average." The dimensions were 40 feet by 24 feet (960 sq. ft, 89 sq. meters). There were 3 bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room, and a combination kitchen/dining area. It has a now-finished basement (nearly 960 sq. ft.) and had an attached one-car garage which was demolished to make room for the addition.
I agree that he furnished the house well. He used color and texture to create warmth while keeping things simple. I'm so tired of everything being off white, taupe, and mushroom.
I’ve seen this tour on a few channels and THIS is not a tour of an average American house. I am American born in California, raised in Texas and this is a Connecticut house which is a very different market… real estate market, design, price point and land mass.
Connecticut has many varieties of houses and apartments. That is the same for most places. Terrace houses are very common in many suburban areas of different states. The thing is: a place in NYC might be relatively smaller than one in the state of Texas. And significantly smaller than many rural parts of New York State (upstate and long island). But the cost in nyc is much more. Same with California. The closest the US has to England would be Massachusetts. And even then, small houses can be extremely expensive. Big houses - astronomical.
In Cincinnati this house would go for upwards of 650K. Lot size and location would also be a factor in the price. This is a very nice upper class house and definitely not a typical middle class abode.
This is way more extravagant than the average house. This house shown is probably 2.2+million dollars . The kitchen is way bigger than average and they have expensive Wayne's coating on all of the walls. Sadly the average house in Florida is close to $500.000 for a 1200 sqft, and it's 15- 20 years old. Great content Kabir
We do have what we call row house, but they are in the cities. For these houses even here in America you have to get out of the big cities.
Kitchens are large and open now because that's where we hang out. That front room won't get used much. I just walked past mine. It's the family room kitchen where all your living time is spent with family and with friends. The formal dining room also doesn't get used. Maybe for Christmas or Thanksgiving. I put a puzzle out on my dining room table the rest of the time
You can get 4 bedroom homes for about $300K-$400K with full features and $250K-$350K with less features (special lighting, recessed ceiling etc).You can find new homes in new developments and if you get in early they can sometimes grant you custom builds. Texas has quite a few such developments about 50 miles ouside of Dallas, Huston etc. Thats a perfect distance from growing cities because it takes a few years until the city gets closer. Your property will increase in value as the city gets closer. Sometimes the property will be enough value by then to sell and payoff and get another with a huge down payment which will lower your mortgage payments. (And it is nice to be the first to live in your home)
I live in a 3br /3 bathroom rancher in North Carolina. The price of a house can vary from state to state and whether the house is in a large city or in the suburbs. $149,000 to around $367,000 for a one story rancher in NC and some have large yards.
I am about an hour from downtown Seattle. We don't have basements out here. In my neighborhood, that house without the attic or basement, on an acer of land, would run maybe $1m or slightly more. In Seattle proper, on a small lot, that would be closer to $2m. I also would consider it an above average, entry level luxury home for my area. However, in a rural area in the Midwest (with basement & attic), $500k or even less would not surprise me.
Nearly every home in Bellevue and Renton had a basement that I've been in growing up. My bedroom was in the basement
Here's how it works Kabir. In the USA, the price of Real Estate (or a home) is dependent upon the price of homes in the immediate vicinity. A distance of as little as 1 mile can mean a difference in price of about $100,000.00 (or more) for the same exact model. It all depends on the location, and as every Real Estate agent will tell you, the three most important factors in choosing a house is 1. Location, 2. Location and 3. Location.
I've purchased 3 different homes in my lifetime and spent a considerable amount of time house-hunting in each case. My current home is a bit smaller than in this video, but I have 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, Kitchen, breakfast area, dining room, living room and an entertainment/family room, 2 car heated garage and all on almost 3/4 of an acre of land. I have 100' of frontage up to the road and about as much behind the house leading into the forest.
I bought this home in 2013 for $140,000.00. You start out small Kabir buying an inexpensive home, gain equity for several years and sell it for a profit which allows you to put a bigger down payment on a bigger home. Continue this process until you find the house you wish to remain in. Easy peesy.😉
That is the "typical" American plan. It has worked for many people, as long as they don't lose their job or have health issues or catastrophic life events.
@@dorirobertson4539 Yes it is the typical plan, and all those issue you mention will effect everything in a person's life, the least of which would be home-buying. In other words, it goes without saying, hence I didn't say it.
Basements are included where there's a lot of snow. If you buy a house where it does not snow very much or not at all, don't expect any basement at all.
I would say the average normal American house is 1/2 that size.
Something like that house 4 bedroom 3 bath 2144 sqft in Minneapolis Minnesota will run you $525K.
I'm from Illinois, and that house would cost around $200K in the southern part of the state, and probably around $4-500K the closer you get to Chicago or St. Louis.
Only $200K for an equivalent house to this? GTFO, no way. I know Middle America is cheaper but that's insane if you think money will stretch that far in this market.
We have an unattached home. Built on concrete foundation with brick exterior walls. Square footage is about 1300. It’s just my wife and I and it’s a 2 bedroom, one bath home. 2 car covered parking, utility/laundry room, kitchen, dinning room, and living room. Water heater, stove, and central heat are natural gas. American mobile homes are generally small and affordable. If maintained, a mobile home can last for more than 20 years.
Just took a yardstick and measured my kitchen. It's 3 yards plus 27" wide X 6 yard plus 12 inches long.
A yard is 36 inches. One end I use for my kitchen table and chairs. I have a counter on the back wall that spands the whole length of the kitchen and up and down wall cabinets that spand the length, except for
two windows to the back yard. It's not a real big kitchen but it's big enough for me. I have a bar in the center of the appliance section - fridge, gas range, and the dish washer under the counter on back wall.
In California this house would be well over a couple of million.. My house in northern Calif is a simple 3 bedroom 2 bath in a suburb currently worth a bit over 650 thousand. It's nothing special but we really are used to more space than in many countries. That house shown is beautiful and pretty big. Obviously there is no average home in the USA. California is not very affordable.
In my hometown of Omaha, NE, my best guess is, that home would list for somewhere between $700k and $1 million. Factors that would impact the asking price: precise square footage, closet/wardrobe space, and the school district.
Property taxes for that home would run from $12k-$20k, depending on the county's valuation. Our property taxes are payable in equal installments, twice per year.
I bought a 1980s Ranch style home that had six bedrooms, three baths and a kitchen that size. I bought it in 2000 for $125,000 in Sacramento, CA. I sold it in 2022 for $560,000. So still very affordable for its size and location.
Yeah, you're definitely not looking at an average home for middle class. This is for a much higher income.
This is NOT a typical home in the US. When they build what the UK calls a housing estate, most of the homes are 3 or maybe 4 bedroom with 2 or 2.5 baths. If there is a basement, it is unfinished and attics don't even have floors, or only a small space with maybe 1 or 2 sheets of 4' X 8' plywood or chipboard laid down for flooring. The HVAC duct work is usually not in the attic or basement. Usually there is either a eat-in kitchen or informal dining area, but bot a separate formal dining room.
I live in Santa Cruz, California. A mobile home here (i think you call that a caravan?) Would be 350-450 thousand $ A house like the one in your video would be well over a million dollars, possibly 2 million.
Kabir when you ask us questions specifically like how much does a single person spend for groceries a week. That depends on the person and where they live? Whats an average house where I’m from in Pennsylvania can be totally different in the same state but in a different city. You have to ask someone from the exact city you would be interested in America and ask specifically what type of home you would like to live in. You have to say if you want good schools,shops around and entertainment. America is about location,location and the size of land it sits on. That determines price in America.
Nowadays here in owatonna Minnesota the houses are around $260,000 - $600,000 but that’s because of the fact that owatonna is expanding in size so we’re getting more people more different income ranges so everything’s going up it’s not just inflation. federated insurance, which is the biggest company here in Owatonna, Minnesota has chipped in to revitalize downtown Owatonna. So we have new hotels and apartments and townhomes being built right now mean you can get a cheap land lot and build a house. Land lots here are starting as low as $48,000 up
In my city this house would go for several million but you can get this in other areas of my state for 400K-500K. You can also get this house for far less than a million in other States, it just depends on where in the country you're willing to move. This area is the Mid Atlantic area so prices are going to be very high, but if you start going South, South West or Mid-West the prices can get much lower. So for Instance you could get a similar house in Delaware, NC, SC, Virginia on new construction between 400K - 500K for 2000sqft - 2500 sq ft, existing construction can run even less and if you want 2 BR that can run under 300-400K.
It depends where in the United States the house is located and where in that location as well.
Most of our homes are single family homes, aka detached. That is a basic middle class home. It is not at all an upper middle class level home. Many people in comments tend to confuse very small, or lower/working class homes with middle class homes. This home is basic middle class.
This home would be middle class in the less expensive areas of the country, but since it’s in Connecticut, I would think it to be upper middle class simply because it’s in a much more expensive area of the country, where instead of 500k, this home would cost closer to $1 million.
No it looks upper middle to me
@@erikawilliams9558 Then you must live in working class/lower middle class neighborhood, thinking that is what middle class is.
Most cities have Town Homes or Row Houses (Terraced housing) in High Density housing areas. Even places like Provo, Utah and Springfield, Missouri and Peoria, Illinois. It's common housing everywhere. A nice step between renting an apartment and owning your own house, house. They're usually quite a bit cheaper than free standing homes.
On the low end you could have a 2000 sq. ft. house built in Texas for 150,000.00-190,000.00. An average house built in Texas depends on the stories starting at 200,000.00-375,000.00. for Modular homes it runs around 250,000.00-500,000.00 for stick built.
Condominiums are like modern row houses like 8 units per complex for example. Make sure you get one with concrete walls separating the apartments for sound control. Try South Carolina or Georgia. Now is not a good time to buy because the prices or out of sight and the mortgage rates a terrible, but what goes up will come done. There are real estate agents who deal internationally. Find one, pick an area and see what info they can give you. As for the house you're reviewing, you have to be making a good living for a home like that, and he's obviously making money.
I live in a terraced house. We call them row houses, and yes, I’m in NY. If this house is in Westport, Weston, Stamford, New Canaan, CT is closer to $2M. Property taxes there are insane as well.
In the Bay Area, with that much land, it would be a few million
AND another thing in the huge house, my guy friend made an Air B&B in PART of his basement. So, he has added income.
A house with unfinished basement etc costs less and over time, you finish it and the value of your home goes way up.
Pennsylvania has row houses. I believe that is what you were thinking about. A big block. We have Ranchers in many states, Split level homes, and Colonials. Then there’s town houses and condos, and apartments. Some home developments have a mix of condos and town houses. Other home developments have mixes of various houses - one floors, like ranch. Where my Dad used to live, there were split level and colonials.
Nice old classic 70's Marantz turntable.
I've already got one. Also, a real nice Marantz 1060 amp. Love 'em!
$400k - $4M depending on area in the USA.
Keep in mind, average earnings are quite different between UK and USA.
$1M USD is like $600-650k GBP.
My kitchen is small and it's a galley kitchen. I call it a step-saver kitchen. I love it.
The cost of the house is often dependent on what state it is located in. The house I lived in when I was in Midwest was brand new, not much smaller than this one (one less bedroom but the bedrooms were larger than the ones in this house) with the same huge basement with extra high ceilings and a large attic but it was the same price as an older, much smaller and less fancy place in California. Land is very expenisive in certain states and not in others. The yard in California was small, the yard alone with the Midwest house was an acre, so there is a huge difference in prices across the USA. That large basement can become an entire apartment and be rented out. The place I lived in had its own entrance to the basement so that could have been a future build.
A typical home here in Arizona is single detached house. Property size is .5 acre with 3 car garages. Many homes have more acreage. Average sizes are about 2,500 square footage.
I live in a rather small house that’s a little over 1000 square feet, on a quarter of an acre lot.
2 bedroom
One bathroom
Was originally a camper trailer that the owners built onto back in the 70s
You can definitely tell because the house hasn’t been updated since the 70s
Fully fenced front and back yard
Basement
Carport
Nice little single person or couple house
being from CT I can say this is not the average house. most are single level ranch or bi-level homes that are barely 1200sf
If you want to see a closer approximation of an average house, watch a few episodes of Home Town. Especially the early seasons. It just depends on what you need. Smaller towns are a little easier on the wallet, but may involve a commute.