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for the first time interestingly the price of a new home is not at a premium to existing homes which tells us that
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the construction firms are building to the market they're trying to build more
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affordable homes they've decreased the size of the homes in the last three years by 6% but there are limits to how
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much they can get the cost down and one of the major limits is land and whether it's available to build which increases
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the availability sites also skilled labor which is increasingly even over the last 5 years more expensive the
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price of new homes even with this attempt to make them more affordable is not affordable we are at 40-year low in
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measures of affordability which is why the Young Generation are having such a difficulty in becoming homeowners