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1 The size and materials of the house will also be a factor for the price of lifting the house. 2  On average, the cost of lifting a home can be anywhere between $9,000 and $40,000. 3  The larger the home, the more expensive this process will be.
1 They tell me a typical house lift costs more like $12,000, but normally they use 2 steel I-beams and in our case they had to use 3 because of the way the bottom floor and kitchen addition had been framed.2  foundation replacement: $5,000 -- demolish, haul away, dig out a workspace, build forms and pour.e were shocked when the first general contractors we talked to estimated roughly $300,000 or more. Even if we had money to burn, we would have ended up with probably a $700,000 house in a $400,000 neighborhood.