{"id":59046,"date":"2017-06-27T06:16:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mcmansions-the-ostentatious-houses-people-love-to-hate\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T06:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:48:57","slug":"mcmansions-the-ostentatious-houses-people-love-to-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mcmansions-the-ostentatious-houses-people-love-to-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"McMansions: The ostentatious houses people love to hate"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIf there’s anything that typifies the boom times before the Great Recession, it is the McMansion. These sprawling houses proliferated around the US in the 2000s, as banks shelled out easy credit to fuel a housing bacchanalia they…
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