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Re:How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former indu... by sampo on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:24PM (#19315462)
Here's one almost 30 stories high apartment building in a place where the location and land don't have too much value as such (Atlantic City). 1,000 sq.ft. 2br condos seem to be priced from $160,000 to $250,000.

https://www.zillow.com/b/bella-atlantic-city-nj-5Xjxz9/

Re:How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former indu... by leguminous on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:29PM (#19316190)
That's a 30-year old building in Atlantic City, though. The building itself will have depreciated since then, and Atlantic City isn't a very desirable area any more. The current prices won't necessarily reflect the original construction costs.

There are some actual numbers in this Fannie Mae commentary:

http://www.fanniemae.com/resources/file/research/emma/pdf/MF...

The average costs to build 1-3 and 4-7 story apartment buildings was $192.0/ft^2 in 2017, compared to $233/ft^2 for 8-24 story buildings. I assume the square footage includes common spaces. I don't know if they attempted to control for sample biases (e.g. if taller buildings tend to be build in areas with higher labor costs).

Re:How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former indu... by d-sc on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:12AM (#19316716)
Getting apples to apples numbers to compare can be difficult. People tend to built more stories in more desireable (read expensive) places.