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...Still, Dietz warned that the market may still see “supply-side challenges” like higher prices and shortages of lumber, lots and labour in 2024....
...Railcar industrialist George Pullman built a town near Chicago for his employees in 1880. George Cadbury fashioned Arts-and-Craft homes in Bournville, near Birmingham, for chocolate-factory workers....
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...The couple, whose adult children have left home, think downsizing from their four-storey, five-bedroom town house would be logical, says Fosh — “But where would we go?...
...vanish entirely if they don’t ramp up housing supply....
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...our town centres”....
...Killoran earns 45 per cent more making solar panels than at his previous manufacturing job and would like to purchase solar panels for his future home....
...Starmer has said Labour aims to return to 70 per cent home ownership, with measures to boost housebuilding, give first-time buyers priority on new homes and identify sites for new towns....
...Campaigners representing private tenants want local authorities to cap holiday rentals in problem areas, such as where conversions to short-term lets or second homes almost outpace the supply of new houses...
...Levene of agent Alpine Homes....
...In Annecy, a medieval town on a lake surrounded by mountains, there are four times as many short-term rentals in the old town today compared with five years ago, said mayor François Astorg....
...Gove said the new policies would “tackle under-delivery in our key towns and cities — where new homes are most needed”....
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...That means more town houses, less expensive finishes and smaller floor plans....
...Many of its towns and villages are dotted with some of Japan’s estimated 10mn vacant homes, many of which are in severe disrepair and more vulnerable to collapse....
...He said increased localism and a generation of mostly Conservative local politicians had gradually choked off supply....
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