Is five acres enough land to build a house on?

Answer 1

Five acres is plenty of land to build a house on, have a nice yard and garden, and still have land left. Five acres is enough to build a sub-division of 20 houses on! Most urban lots are around a quarter of an acre or less. I have a pretty large lot and it is just under a half acre. Generally a nice size residential house lot is around 5000 square ft. An acre is about 45,000 sq ft.. What the building code is for any particular area and standard or allowed lot size is can vary tremendously. An acre is a little over half of a New York City Block, so five acres would be almost 3 new york city blocks. You can have a nice house with room for horses.