{"id":12118,"date":"2016-05-08T06:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T23:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/newbuilds-alone-cant-provide-the-affordable-homes-we-need-the-big-issue\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T06:28:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T23:28:52","slug":"newbuilds-alone-cant-provide-the-affordable-homes-we-need-the-big-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/newbuilds-alone-cant-provide-the-affordable-homes-we-need-the-big-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Newbuilds alone can\u2019t provide the affordable homes we need | The big issue"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBuilders cannot build at prices new households can afford \u2013 they would go brokeThanks for your excellent housing special last week. It is a great relief to see a discussion that doesn\u2019t start from the proposition that the answer to making housing more affordable is to just build more houses.New houses are only about 10% of annual flow on to the market, so the numbers that would be needed to lower prices by adding to supply are huge. (Kate Barker\u2019s 2004 report to Gordon Brown, which started it all, said it would take an extra 70,000 homes per year, continued for 10 years, to \u201cprice into the market\u201d just 5,000 more households a year.) Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Builders cannot build at prices new households can afford \u2013 they would go brokeThanks for...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-39s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51228,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-faces-a-glut-of-new-luxury-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":12118,"position":0},"title":"London faces a glut of new luxury homes","date":"April 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Completions of newbuilds in the capital reach highest number since 1930s\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...London faces a glut of new luxury homes","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129943,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-aucklands-building-boom-cooling-off-1500-fewer-homes-built-in-past-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":12118,"position":1},"title":"Is Auckland's building boom cooling off? 1500 fewer homes built in past year","date":"September 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Auckland's building boom appears to have cooled with 1500 fewer homes built in the past year and dropping demand from buyers.Auckland Council issued 12,874 Code Compliance Certificates for finished newbuilds in the 12 months to...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Is Auckland's building boom cooling off? 1500 fewer homes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6168,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/earn-23000-a-year-this-man-wants-to-sell-you-a-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":12118,"position":2},"title":"Earn \u00a323,000 a year? 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