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April 1, 2016

Strange But True!

Q. What's the dramatic contrast in the housing market these days? Are you up on the lingo?

A. Think of ever-bigger houses as the major trend: In 1900, the average U.S. single-family house was 700 square feet, jumping to 1,660 square feet in 1973 and a whopping 2,520 square feet in 2007, says Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum magazine. All of this has led to new words to accommodate the new reality: “monster homes” or “megahomes”; “bigfoot homes” for massive houses crammed into small lots; even “starter castles” for garishly large dwellings.


 
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