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"people preferred Victorian and Georgian homes because they offer more space, light and flexibility" is, perhaps, the key rather than style. I live in a Victorian house for precisely those reasons: larger rooms, higher ceilings and generally more square metres/£100 000 than I would get if I bought a modern property for the same budget.

The apparent appetite for design based home and interior design programmes on TV suggests that the public is possibly rather less wedded to the past than the typical speculative housebuilder believes, but if you want a new-built house you are more likely to get faux-Victorian, faux-cottage or faux-just-about-anything-else than at any time since the Second World War. You might as well buy the real thing and get more space for your money.

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