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We have all noticed the proliferation of newly built or building town houses all over Lower Hutt, and wondered who was buying them. John gave us the answer: no-one! Too many of them are being built too close together and are too small. No owner wants them built next door, cutting out their sun, and almost no one wants to buy them as they are too small, lack garages and gardens and often have too little sun themselves. Furthermore they often lack parking and being two or three storeys, are unsuitable for the retirement market. Many developers, having built or in the process of still building them are letting them, or turning them into BnBs and one Christchurch based developer which built many and once employed twenty agents in the Wellington area now employs only one.
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