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Re:Why Britain Doesn’t Build by andyferris on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @01:02AM (#36489096)
With shoes, sure.

With housing, it depends. There can be a proximity effect. The old house next to all the nicely redeveloped new houses is now worth more, even if the total number of bedrooms hasn't changed during the redevelopment, because it is in a nicer environment (and a buyer might want to redevelop the old house, and live in a nice house in a nice suburb).

Re:Why Britain Doesn’t Build by aetherson on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @12:38PM (#36495259)
That's been repeatedly empirically shown not to be true. New housing depresses the price of existing housing (very slightly), even hyper-locally.