House sizes getting smaller
Oct 24th 2009, 4:58 am
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House sizes getting smaller
The courier mail has an article today with the headline:
Downward shift in Household Footprints
So, here are the figures from the report they worked from:
Queensland average floorplan size:
Believe headlines at your peril
Australia on average is 253.1 square metres compared to 149.7 sm in 1984/85
NSW is 308.3 square metres in 2009.
Downward shift in Household Footprints
Queensland homeowners are adopting small and smarter floorplans for new build properties <..>
the size of new homes in Queensland shrank by more than double the national average...
the size of new homes in Queensland shrank by more than double the national average...
Queensland average floorplan size:
- 1999 224.6 square metres
- 2009 251.4 square metres
Believe headlines at your peril
Australia on average is 253.1 square metres compared to 149.7 sm in 1984/85
NSW is 308.3 square metres in 2009.
Oct 24th 2009, 5:22 am
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Re: House sizes getting smaller
The courier mail has an article today with the headline:
Downward shift in Household Footprints
So, here are the figures from the report they worked from:
Queensland average floorplan size:
Believe headlines at your peril
Australia on average is 253.1 square metres compared to 149.7 sm in 1984/85
NSW is 308.3 square metres in 2009.
Downward shift in Household Footprints
So, here are the figures from the report they worked from:
Queensland average floorplan size:
- 1999 224.6 square metres
- 2009 251.4 square metres
Believe headlines at your peril
Australia on average is 253.1 square metres compared to 149.7 sm in 1984/85
NSW is 308.3 square metres in 2009.
At premium end smaller number of rooms but each room itself being large?
At budget end rooms becoming smaller and number of rooms increasing?
Sense of money worth through different eyes perhaps?
Oct 24th 2009, 5:48 am
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Re: House sizes getting smaller
The courier mail has an article today with the headline:
Downward shift in Household Footprints
So, here are the figures from the report they worked from:
Queensland average floorplan size:
Believe headlines at your peril
Downward shift in Household Footprints
So, here are the figures from the report they worked from:
Queensland average floorplan size:
- 1999 224.6 square metres
- 2009 251.4 square metres
Believe headlines at your peril
Floor area has been increasing for a long time (as good consumers we have to have somewhere to store our junk).
The footprint of the building has been decreasing as more houses built are 2 storey. That is so you can build bigger houses on smaller blocks of land.
WW
Oct 24th 2009, 6:13 am
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Re: House sizes getting smaller
That could be right.
Floor area has been increasing for a long time (as good consumers we have to have somewhere to store our junk).
The footprint of the building has been decreasing as more houses built are 2 storey. That is so you can build bigger houses on smaller blocks of land.
WW
Floor area has been increasing for a long time (as good consumers we have to have somewhere to store our junk).
The footprint of the building has been decreasing as more houses built are 2 storey. That is so you can build bigger houses on smaller blocks of land.
WW
Footprint or Floorspace, could well be two different numbers.
And they did use the word "Footprint" in the article, although I was thinking "Floorspace".
