Maybe it's just a stupid statement made out of tv shows like 'extreme makeover home edition', correct me please if I'm wrong.... In US most of the houses seems

Maybe it's just a stupid statement made out of tv shows like 'extreme makeover home edition', correct me please if I'm wrong.... In US most of the houses seems to be made over a wooden structure, making them more fragile, easy to be renovated / customized / moved / rebuilt and, most important, cheaper. Here in Italy (and AFAIK in the whole Europe) there's nothing like that: full concrete and a proper basement, basically no wood (except from roof). I just bought my first flat and I've spent 168k euros for a 85 square meters flat 25 km from Milan. Despite the crisis, prices are stable and/or are decreasing very slowly. You will never find, even in the worst zones of the cheapest cities an house at 10k euros here, neither a bunch of bricks will be sold for that. :)