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by pc86 43 days ago
If we're talking about home prices why are you talking about apartments? There are a lot of costs associated with apartment buildings that simply don't exist for SFH and MFH builds.

Apartments are a different beast.

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Indeed, there's an entirely separate, far more strict building code for apartments than for single-family detached housing.

This was an explicit goal of the designers of the early building code split: make single family homes as cheap as possible, and apartments as expensive as possible.