"Bob" wrote in message
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I reckon high house prices are due to
the obsession with "affordable"
housing and starter homes.
If they'd built thousands of large detatched
houses instead, then people
with the money would be buying those,
.. not competing for the smaller houses
that everyone else expects to be able to buy.

Very true. We need land released to make the houses affordable even for
large houses too.

It would be better to lay down minimum
plot and room sizes, and not allow tiny
houses to be built at all.

Good thinking.

The bottom end of the market would
then eventually consist of these decent sized
homes instead of the rabbit hutches - but for the same price.

Very true.