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  • sadclownwp

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    I wonder if new houses will be smaller again. During the boom in the late 90s and early 2000s, houses were getting bigger and bigger.
    Since land costs the same no matter if you build a small house or large house, I think we have seen the end of the traditional starter home. Every new house I see going up is 2+ bedroom and 2 bath. The one bedroom, one bathroom, with a full kitchen, living room, and garage is a thing of the past.
     

    KLB

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    Since land costs the same no matter if you build a small house or large house, I think we have seen the end of the traditional starter home. Every new house I see going up is 2+ bedroom and 2 bath. The one bedroom, one bathroom, with a full kitchen, living room, and garage is a thing of the past.
    The smaller house, under 2k sqft, is much more affordable than the 3000+ sqft homes that were being built 20 years ago.
     

    sadclownwp

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    The smaller house, under 2k sqft, is much more affordable than the 3000+ sqft homes that were being built 20 years ago.
    But 2k is a huge house and definitely not a starter home. Starter homes are like 1000-1300 sqft. And it is the Starter home that is desperately needed the most.
     

    Brian Ski

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    Since land costs the same no matter if you build a small house or large house, I think we have seen the end of the traditional starter home. Every new house I see going up is 2+ bedroom and 2 bath. The one bedroom, one bathroom, with a full kitchen, living room, and garage is a thing of the past.
    Good luck with that... Just got the property tax bill. Our taxes have gone up 4 times what they were 12 years ago. They said Indiana has a 1% cap on our property tax, now I am looking over the tax bill and it is 1-1/2 % of the property value. The percentage has not gone up much. But they play the game and say the property value is much higher.
     

    Dean C.

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    People want to buy them desperately. No contractors are buying property to build smaller homes on, when they could build larger homes on the same property.


    Smallest home in my development was 1600sqft and that’s not even counting the attached garage!


    This article was written in 2019 and is still talking about affordability and how construction codes essentially eliminated 1,000sqft “starter homes”. Basically your local .gov legislated them away to attract higher earners in an attempt to make their county nicer.
     

    Creedmoor

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    You can probably double that to account for how aggressively Biden is cooking the official figures.

    They're still trying to tell us groceries are only up 3%.
    I bought two cans of Roast Beef Hash today. $3.60 a can. That's twice what it was, under President Trump.
    Vote better America...
     

    Ingomike

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    Since land costs the same no matter if you build a small house or large house, I think we have seen the end of the traditional starter home. Every new house I see going up is 2+ bedroom and 2 bath. The one bedroom, one bathroom, with a full kitchen, living room, and garage is a thing of the past.
    Are you Rip Van Winkle? Did you just wake up? The new construction starter house has been mostly 3 bed 2 bath for decades in Indiana. There are not many 1 bed houses from even the depression era.
     

    Ingomike

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    Typically is costs about $150 per sq ft to build a starter home in Indy area. If we drop Dean’s 1600 to 1000 the cost will rise dramatically. Why? Because the cost is biggest in the kitchens and baths. The extra two bedrooms, larger living rooms, etc. cost $50 a sq foot. The economics work out better for all.

    Then most of those 2BD/1BA had no place to even put a modern appliances like dishwasher and microwave. They also were on a basement that gave a place for storage that modern slab homes do not have. The market is working.
     

    MCgrease08

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    Smallest home in my development was 1600sqft and that’s not even counting the attached garage!


    This article was written in 2019 and is still talking about affordability and how construction codes essentially eliminated 1,000sqft “starter homes”. Basically your local .gov legislated them away to attract higher earners in an attempt to make their county nicer.
    This.

    And what incentive does a builder have to build smaller homes when the big ones sell so quick?
     

    Dean C.

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    This.

    And what incentive does a builder have to build smaller homes when the big ones sell so quick?

    Correct , the house that was just built 2 plots north of my house sold for 40k above list. Someone could have had it built in 5 months and just pocketed the extra cash but that’s the current market. I am interested to see when the tax assessor comes around to try and jack my value up.
     
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