I've thought about this. I reckon we have the most unaffordable homes in the world, because the new ones are for the most part really lovely homes, standalone, with 3 or 4 bedrooms, beautiful open plan kitchens, laundrys, rumpus room etc. The average established house in the UK is tiny by comparison, terraced or semi-detached, the washing machine just about squeezed into the kitchen. Most new builds are incredibly high density, paper thin walls, no actual room for a dining table ANYWHERE, in fact in many of the display homes the furniture is specially made at 3/4 size to delude you that yours would all fit, and many of the doors are taken off so that you don't realise that once the bed is in it's a squeeze and a half to get in the room.
I think if you put your average Symmonds or Metricon home on a block of land in the UK, you would be paying the same price as here. It certainly would not be any cheaper.
