From: hex@unseen.ac.am 
  
 On 08/09/2025 12:46, Roland Perry wrote: 
 > In message <109mb4t$3qh8d$4@dont-email.me>, at 10:28:45 on Mon, 8 Sep 
 > 2025, Jethro_uk  remarked: 
 >> On Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:03:00 +0100, Roland Perry wrote: 
 >> 
 >>> In message <109kcl0$3pssh$2@dont-email.me>, at 16:42:09 on Sun, 7 Sep 
 >>> 2025, Jethro_uk  remarked: 
 >>>> [quoted text muted] 
 >>> 
 >>> But there isn't a shortage of properties for owner occupiers to buy. 
 >>> Quite the reverse. They've stopped much of the building on the new 
 >>> estates surrounding Ely [sorry] because they can't sell the ones they 
 >>> already have. 
 >> 
 >> When looking at new builds in 2014, every single developer stressed the 
 >> properties were sold in small lots to ensure the price remained as high 
 >> as possible. Which suggests any housing "crisis" is entirely an 
 >> artificial construction. 
 > 
 > This is 2025, and largely because of regulations like solar panels, car 
 > chargers, massive insulation, broadband and air-pump heating, the total 
 > cost is more than buyers can afford (even if they'd be happy not to have 
 > all those whistles and bells). 
  
 There are always potential buyers who can afford to spend the amounts 
 involved. 
  
 Maybe those who can are not those who want to buy the rabbit-hutch 
 properties concerned though, leaving only those who can't. 
  
 It's a problem if even the cheapest new builds cannot be built for a 
 price affordable for first-time buyers. 
  
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