How is the economy and new home size connected?
According to the Wall Street Journal Online, home builders are offering smaller homes due to the problems in the housing market. "Financing has tightened down so much that many people aren't able to qualify for the larger houses," said Kathryn Boyce, an account executive in Northern California for Boston-based real-estate research firm Hanley Wood Market Intelligence. "Throughout the U.S. people can't afford what they previously did. Floor plans are going to get smaller." Many homebuilders are scaling down the size of their McMansions due to affordability.
