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The profit maximising situation for the large UK housebuilders is not one in which planning restrictions are lifted and the price of land collapses. Why would
by djmobley 10y ago
The profit maximising situation for the large UK housebuilders is not one in which planning restrictions are lifted and the price of land collapses.
Why would they be trying to advance these policies?
- toyg 10y agoYou are mixing landowner profits and developer profits. Developers want low prices for new land in greenfield areas that will make the resulting houses appealing. Landowners want high prices but they also want to actually be able to sell - it doesn't matter how much your land is theoretically worth if nobody wants to buy it because they can't build on it.
- djmobley 10y ago1) House builders are big land owners; 2) The price of the land is passed on to property buyers in its entirety.