According to the New York Times, official statistics indicate that the 30-year trend of ever bigger American houses seems to have levelled off."The size of the average American house rose from about 1,500 square feet in 1970 to more than 2,300 square feet in 2001, with a particularly big growth spurt in the late 1990's. But from 2001 to 2004, the growth practically halted."
To understand why, read the article or watch a short multimedia presentation.
In Australia, the trend has been similar. Average home size has increased from 162.2 sqm in 1984-85 to 227.6 sqm in 2002-03, with the steepest rise occurring in the second half of the 1990s.
The funny thing is, in both the US and Australia, averge land size has been shrinking. Ever bigger houses on ever smaller lots imply that the average size of a home garden has decreased dramatically over the past few decades.
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