Shrinking budgets, smaller homes; Builders take a tip from buyers and crank down the square footage.

Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) › Nbr. 2009, January 2009

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Shrinking budgets, smaller homes; Builders take a tip from buyers and crank down the square footage.

Byline: Tom Samph

Driving through The Highlands, a suburban housing development in Rutland, is like tracing the history of homebuyer demand.

The older homes are toward the front of the development, and the farther you drive toward the newer homes in the back, the smaller they get. The sizes of the houses, each of...

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