From: NotSomeone@Microsoft.Invalid 
  
 On 08/09/2025 12:43, Roland Perry wrote: 
 > 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. 
  
 If the cost of building homes is indeed €€250 psf, then it's a wonder 
 that homes are being built in parts of the country where the price of 
 the existing housing stock is below that figure. 
  
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