The size of new houses shrank during the two-year recession, but now they are growing again–in fact, they hit an all-time high in 2012, with an average new house reaching 2,306 square feet. Smart growth advocates like to think that the downsizing reflected a preference for smaller spaces, but it looks like people just couldn’t afford more space during the recession–and now that they can, they are going big.
“McMansions” making a comeback
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What a bummer. This is simply not sustainable and wrong on so many levels. Very discouraging. It’s not nice to wish bad things on people, but I would experience great schadenfruede if the McMansion owners had trouble selling when they no longer need such wretched excess and lost big money.