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The average new home size in the 70's (earliest census data) was somewhere around 1500 sq/ft.
Now the average is somewhere around 2,500 square feet with a smaller family size.
Yes, if you buy more house it will be more expensive.
The price per square foot has remained relatively stable.
http://www.aei.org/publication/todays-new-homes-are-1000-squ...
"From 1890 -- just three decades after the Civil War -- through 2012, home prices adjusted for inflation literally went nowhere. Not a single dime of real growth."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/05/...
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The average new home size in the 70's (earliest census data) was somewhere around 1500 sq/ft.
Now the average is somewhere around 2,500 square feet with a smaller family size.
Yes, if you buy more house it will be more expensive.
The price per square foot has remained relatively stable.
http://www.aei.org/publication/todays-new-homes-are-1000-squ...
"From 1890 -- just three decades after the Civil War -- through 2012, home prices adjusted for inflation literally went nowhere. Not a single dime of real growth."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/05/...