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Gableworth Design-Build30 pages / Fictional brand / Demo site by Sumo Studios
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A budget band, a timeline and the approvals likely in play, for a town or one of our lots. Figures at 2026 prices. Nothing you enter leaves this page until you book.
Keys about 25 months after you start
From the town or village building department: drawings, energy compliance and structural sheets.
County health department approval for a new septic system.
Answer the last two questions, timing and budget, to see what happens next.
3,600 sq ft new house at Harbor Hill Meadow, Considered finish: $3.5M to $4.05M.
400 more square feet adds about $400,000 to the example house.
Finish moves the number more than size does: Exacting runs about 26 percent over Considered, all in.
A steep lot instead of a sloped one adds about $240,000: a retaining allowance, and 8 percent on construction instead of 3.
Mostly months, not dollars. Tidal water is the exception: about $310,000 and 4 more months.
Figures at 2026 prices, all in, for the same 3,600 sq ft house on each lot.
Yes, from the end of design development. Before that we give a band that narrows as the drawings grow: plus or minus 7 percent at the first price, plus or minus 3 percent before the contract. The contract is a fixed price with named allowances for what you have not chosen yet.
$6,800, fixed. It covers the survey review, a test pit, a zoning check and a one-sheet layout with a price band. If you go ahead with us, it is credited to the design fee.
About $350,000 for an addition, $600,000 for a renovation and $1.2 million for a new house. Below that, we are glad to tell you who we would call.