From: NotSomeone@Microsoft.Invalid 
  
 On 08/09/2025 11:28, Jethro_uk wrote: 
 > 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. 
 > 
  
  
 It makes sense to build houses in batches, as the developer can have 
 enough plant (eg scaffolding) and workers for say a dozen houses on site 
 and move those resources along to the next batch of a dozen after those 
 are built. 
  
 It obviously also makes sense to match the build rate with the sale 
 rate, to avoid having vast amounts of capital tied up in unsold houses. 
  
 So, yes, developers build in small lots. But not for the reason you 
 advanced. 
  
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