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by bombcar 461 days ago
Even in places where there’s infinite land literally you can buy 50 acres and develop it tomorrow and people are building it. They’re only building high-end luxury homes. Even the cheapest smallest townhomes are definitely into the low luxury area.

If they wanted to, they could build them much more affordable and save 30% off the total price, but nobody does it. Why not? It takes the same amount of time and you might as well build the more expensive one because someone will buy it and you get a percentage of the sale price.

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>Even in places where there’s infinite land literally you can buy 50 acres and develop it tomorrow and people are building it.

Where is there both desirable places to live and infinite land you can build on?

Also important: how are those plots zoned and what is the process for the builders to get approval for their builds?

Builders are building and the houses are selling; in suburbs all over the country. I presume the people buying them desire them, they're spending close to half a million for them.

The builders get approval from the county if outside a city, or the city if inside one, or build a new city.

This doesn’t answer my question. Where is it both highly desirable to live and lots of land to build on? And what are there zoning and building regulations?

“All over the country” isn’t a specific answer to the question at hand

Luxury has the same cost of land and utilities.

Costs like 15% more and sells for 30% more. Building economy is a losing proposition.