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Action on Rabbit Hutches?

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  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Andy_L wrote: »
    look at the size of the bedroom though. By the time you've put a double bed (let alone a queen/king) in you've got <1m around it. Chuck in some furniture & space to open the doors & you're squeezing you way in & out

    I've ans all that in previous posts I'm not saying it's a big room just that it's adequate.
  • CLAPTON wrote: »
    I've lost the plot here ........

    If their market is 'limited' then presumably there is no real demand to satisfy and so no problem to resolve?

    On the contrary. There is lots of demand generally but developers have restricted their potential market by making a product that only appeals to 20% of the total market.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    On the contrary. There is lots of demand generally but developers have restricted their potential market by making a product that only appeals to 20% of the total market.

    Why would they do that
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    On the contrary. There is lots of demand generally but developers have restricted their potential market by making a product that only appeals to 20% of the total market.



    tell me

    you are an intelligent dynamic sort of bloke and can see that fortunes could easily be made by meeting all this unsatisfied demand for houses.

    why can't other people see that too and elbow their way into the market and so making a personal fortune for themselves and contributing to the social good?
  • thescouselander
    thescouselander Posts: 5,547 Forumite
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    edited 22 August 2013 at 4:20PM
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    tell me

    you are an intelligent dynamic sort of bloke and can see that fortunes could easily be made by meeting all this unsatisfied demand for houses.

    why can't other people see that too and elbow their way into the market and so making a personal fortune for themselves and contributing to the social good?

    Presumably the business models developers are currently using is the best for making a profit. It still doesn't change the fact that new build housing is seen as a waste of time by the majority of buyers.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »

    why can't other people see that too and elbow their way into the market and so making a personal fortune for themselves and contributing to the social good?

    Considering the large builders are making donations of over £1m a year to the tory party, I doubt elbowing your way in would be quite that simple.
  • CLAPTON
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    Considering the large builders are making donations of over £1m a year to the tory party, I doubt elbowing your way in would be quite that simple.



    How would that work?

    Are you saying that Devon's elected councilors and the council officers corruptly prevent small builders getting planning permission?

    And at the bequest of the Tory party?
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Presumably the business models developers are currently using is the best for making a profit. It still doesn't change the fact that new build housing is seen as a waste of time by the majority of buyers.


    It depends upon what question was asked.

    If they were asked whether they would buy new build equivalent to a previously loved one for the same price then many more than 20% would say yes.

    If however you ask them whether they are willing to pay a premium of 20-30% for an equivalent then many would say no.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    How would that work?

    Are you saying that Devon's elected councilors and the council officers corruptly prevent small builders getting planning permission?

    And at the bequest of the Tory party?

    If I was saying that I would have said it.

    I didn't. So I wasn't.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    If I was saying that I would have said it.

    I didn't. So I wasn't.


    Still no comment on Liskeard house
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