And the prices are eye watering high for what is offered. In the main urban areas Stockholm/Helsinki/Oslo it is easy to find house blocks consisting of buildings with soviet style looks costing close to 500k USD. Weird floor planning and "dry" walls are the norm here.
One of the apartments I had did not have a window in the bedroom. How is that okay to build it that way? I don't know. Yes, there are laws against this but it does happen.
The construction, while not shoddy, does not justify the price alone and it seems construction companies are doing quite well between the pre-built structures and hiring immigrants to do some of the less qualified jobs.
If you can make a parity between salaries price of apartments/buildings in Southern Europe, Portugal/Spain/France, and in the Americas are better built than the ones here. And they come in other colors than brown or beige.