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How Downsized Building Trends Affect Bedrooms and Bathrooms
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Builders are struggling to construct homes
that are affordable to a greater number of buyers, especially those on the
entry level, and they are finding building smaller and leaner is one way to go.
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of
Construction (SOC) and its Quarterly Starts and Completions by Purpose
and Design, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has analyzed
the steadily declining size of new houses and the shift in the number of
bedrooms and bathrooms within.
The decline in the average size of homes constructed since 2016 has been
slow but steady (the median size is more volatile) and reached 2,464 square
feet (sf) in the third quarter of 2019. The one-year moving average is slightly
higher at 2,521sf.
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