Is it better to buy or build a house? What is your reason?

If you build a house you get what you want done the way you want, but it'll cost you and there can be lots of hassles and annoyances to the building process. If you buy a house you can get a decent house for less money or a really good house for more money (but this may be close to what you want). Its personal preference but being kinda cheap I'd generally just buy the one I wanted.

It depends on how you define better. If the better house costs less, buying is the better option in most cases. The exception is when building very large houses. Or maybe you define better as the best school district, or shortest commute to work, or maybe location of the most ritzy neighborhood. Or maybe the house that will offer the highest resale value. We all have different priorities.

when I build my house it was fully my choose,, it is very good looking and strong house,

it is always better to build a house if you know & r very confident that u can finish all the fundamentals of house from each wires to each pipes. If you are not very sure then go for buying a house which is build by realtors who does more negotiation to build a house in budget.

Considering I have spent a career learning skills other than home building...buy it.

Depends on what you want and if there are already houses out there that fit your needs and wants. If there are, then all you're doing by building is having to deal with building a new house while being able to tell people you're the first owner.

I have no interest in building a house.

I'm not great at visualization, so I want to see exactly what I'm buying before I buy it. In addition, making all those millions of decisions about everything from bathroom faucets to custom mill work sounds overwhelming and exhausting. Plus, the thought of living in one of those God awful new housing tracts sounds just horrible.

Obviously my opinion applies to me only. My SIL is the opposite and loves everything "new".

If you build a house and something is not good, it is your own fault and you have to live with it.

I built my own (as in with my own hands). It was a very small home as I have simple needs.

Do you mean that or working with a builder to build your home for you?

I would recommend either doing it from scratch yourself (if you can) or buying the finished product (if you can afford it). Hiring a builder to make you a custom home always sounds enticing but almost always ends up costing more than expected AND is full of headaches and stress.

Probably buy a house building would take time and effort and money to buy all the stuff needed for the house.