My wife is from upstate New York and every home is made from wood, I don’t think I’ve seen a wooden house in the UK. Maybe one or two grade 1 listed pubs.
I get the proximity to cheaper materials, the availability of brick, local resources etc.. But I also see it reflected in the price £400k, for a 4 bed in East Greenbush (outside Albany), vs £700k for a 4-bedroom brick house outside Chester (I thought roughly equivalent, if not weighted in favor of NY).
Surely there’s a market for cheaper wooden houses in the UK? What’s the deal?
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During the years after WW2 cheap and fast to make houses were needed. Added that US households move more often than others most people do not care if their home is going to need work in ten years since they are more than likely to have already moved.
TLDR: Fast & cheap houses after WW2 vets returned and then short shortsightedness.
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