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The self-build community is a broad church comprising not just the private individual who builds a unique one-off home for their family, or renovates an existing house. More and more, private developers operating at the top end of the market immerse themselves in this sector because it is the best way for them to get a hold on the innovations and features that the discerning homebuyer requires. Increasingly, there is a blurring of the lines between self-built homes and their counterparts at the top end of the commercial market. Interestingly, around 25% of visitors to The Smart Home Show at The National Homebuilding & Renovating Show class themselves as trade visitors. When you dig deeper, it transpires that around half of this 'trade audience' falls into the specific roles of property developer and builder.
The self-build sector is largely responsible, as early adopters, for the introduction into the wider housebuilding world of ideas such as open-plan living, double height spaces, breakfast kitchens and set-piece staircases, as well, particularly, as features such as underfloor heating, eco products such as condensing boilers and heat pumps and, of course, smart home technology.
See full article at http://hiddenwires.co.uk/resourcesarticles2007/articles20071105-04.html
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