The average new house is targeted at a small minority of relatively wealthy people, because they're the most profitable market. It's not going to be terribly re

The average new house is targeted at a small minority of relatively wealthy people, because they're the most profitable market. It's not going to be terribly representative of what normal people want. (Even here in the UK, where new house sizes are effectively capped now, they still cost more than a larger older house because house builders want to make money..)