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by lotsofpulp 731 days ago
To add to that, household size also decreased.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/10/01/the-numbe...

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This is the one I'm curious to see play out. How low can it go? Did it reach bottom? Maybe once it stabilizes at a new norm, housing supply will catch up and prices will settle down.
Yet, almost no one makes those sweet starter homes anymore.
Newer homes have been trending smaller and smaller for a long time. Especially in the western US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/10/smaller-n...

> Median new-home sizes are at a 13-year low.

I must not be looking at the right place then. All the new homes I've seen recently are 2000+ sq. ft. The only ones that are smaller are usually townhomes and are even less affordable than the bigger homes I just mentioned they are located near downtowns or other heavily populated areas.
Here are some at not much more than 1k sq ft:

https://www.mihomes.com/new-homes/texas/greater-san-antonio/...

https://ginngrp.com/for-sale/parkhouse-vista/

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/812-24th-Avenue-S-Seattle...

> The only ones that are smaller are usually townhomes and are even less affordable than the bigger homes I just mentioned they are located near downtowns or other heavily populated areas.

That will not change because the market of people looking to buy a 1k sq ft home on a quarter acre lot in a less populated area either cannot afford the construction costs or the set of buyers interested in that is too small to bet on for a developer.

No you are still right. The article says the new smaller homes average 2179 square feet.