If you’re looking to move but haven’t found the perfect home — or you’re balking at the current market’s high prices — you might be wondering what it would take to build a brand-new home of your own.

Could you save money building a home yourself instead of trying to buy one? With mortgage rates bouncing around even as they slowly decline, it’s an intriguing proposition. According to data from ...

Choosing the new-construction route comes with challenges like cost overruns, permitting delays and supply-chain issues, but also the promise of getting a fully customized home. Credit...Kate Warren ...

Colin Goodson knows more about energy than most people. The tall, bearded Mainer is an engineer on an offshore oil drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico. But when it came time for him to build a home in ...

The architect Dimitri Brand and his wife, Nelly Mecklenburg, built a custom home in New York and tacked on an addition. But they’re only using 200 square feet of it, for now. Dimitri Brand and Nelly ...