"Doctor Drivel" wrote in message
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Build cost on a small house is £60-100k plus cots of laying in roads
services etc..and the land never comes to anything like that.

Total tripe! The land cost is the major factor.

There were some self build plots sold near me recently.. they were around
£25k,
So by your reckoning the house is going to cost about 10k to build.


Its just another Labour bit of spin.

You are brainwashed fool.

Basically a house represents 10% of your working life in (someone's)
labour costs.

Which is ridiculous. An acre of agricultural land can be purchased for
£2,000, a complete eco kit home for £20,000, yet the average price of a
house in the UK is near to £200,000. Obtaining planning permission to
erect a house in the countryside in a country with a land surplus will be
near impossible. Few realise that the high land value is the reason why
their homes are so expensive.

Homes are expensive because people are prepared to pay for them.
If people weren't paying the price they wouldn't be expensive.