{"id":84848,"date":"2018-04-09T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-rabbit-hutch-britain-living-space-has-shrunk-to-the-same-as-80-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:02:56","slug":"in-rabbit-hutch-britain-living-space-has-shrunk-to-the-same-as-80-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-rabbit-hutch-britain-living-space-has-shrunk-to-the-same-as-80-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018rabbit hutch Britain\u2019, living space has shrunk to the same as 80 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe living rooms of newly built homes in Britain are nearly a third smaller than equivalent homes built in the 1970s, according to new research that charts how overall living space has shrunk to levels last seen 80 years ago.
\nThe research, by LABC Warranty, which provides warranties for new-build homes, found that the average living room in a house built since 2010 is 17.1 square metres (184 square feet), compared with 24.9 square metres (268 square feet) in the 1970s, a 32 per cent contraction…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…In \u2018rabbit hutch Britain\u2019, living space has shrunk to the same as 80 years ago<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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