{"id":10617,"date":"2009-01-09T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_homes_being_built_smaller\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:52:50","slug":"new_homes_being_built_smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10617","title":{"rendered":"New homes being built smaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Kermit] Baker says there is less incentive to buy a bigger, more expensive home as the economy weakens, home prices fall and energy costs remain a concern. He says people are less likely to see a home as a good investment.<\/p>\n<p>Even high-end buyers, Baker says, are showing more interest in smaller, better-crafted homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People don&#8217;t want to be wasteful,&#8221; says JD Callander of Weichert Realtors. She says they are concerned about utility costs and cleaning requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Clients used to like the status of a big home, she says, but &#8220;those days are gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/economy\/housing\/2009-01-08-homesize_N.htm\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Kermit] Baker says there is less incentive to buy a bigger, more expensive home as the economy weakens, home prices fall and energy costs remain a concern. He says people are less likely to see a home as a good<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10617\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,600,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}