From: roland@perry.uk 
  
 In message , at 12:16:57 on Mon, 8 Sep 
 2025, Norman Wells  remarked: 
 >On 08/09/2025 10:59, Roland Perry wrote: 
 > 
 >> Near where I live is a green-field site with planning permission for 
 >>five or six detached homes. Two previous developers have thrown in the 
 >>towel, not having got beyond the foundations (but no roads). At the 
 >>latest asking price for the land, nobody could build a house and make 
 >>any profit at all. So nobody is. 
 > 
 >It's the free market in action.  It will all balance out when supply 
 >matches demand. 
  
 In the mean time there's five or six houses which will never get built, 
 because the cost of doing so is more than the market price. 
 -- 
 Roland Perry 
  
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