Whereas bungalows had been in decline amongst house-builders in most modern years, Muir Properties has made up our minds to buck the pattern.
In 2000, bungalows accounted for six.9% of all original-make completions in England. By 2020, this figure had dropped to trusty 1.2%, no topic rising ask from growing old downsizers. Scotland presentations the same pattern.
In most modern times, most housing builders maintain tended to prioritise multiple-storey houses to maximise profit margins.
Nonetheless, Muir Properties’ original Deer Pines construction in Stanley in Perthshire shall be diversified – better than a fifth of the construction shall be single-storey.
Muir has essentially based utterly its original strategy on easy demographics – an growing old inhabitants manner more folk combating stairs.
In line with National Data for Scotland, in the 1971 census, better than 25% of the inhabitants was once below the age of 15 with easiest 12% old 65 or over. In the 2021 census this had flipped to be better than 20% of the inhabitants being 65 or over, and trusty 15% being below the age of 15.
Muir Community chief government Martin Smith acknowledged: “Scotland’s changing demographics had been sure to trust for a whereas now and with more and more passion in bungalows we’re taking a strategic determination to make more of them going ahead.
“Understandably, faded groups and even younger families are now transferring towards single-storey homes attributable to ease of accessibility or certainly, trusty pattern-setting. We predict that our traits thrive after we build homes that attract a huge vary of groups that rapidly assign and evolve trusty into a vibrant and sustainable community.
“Our original construction in Perthshire will buck the pattern of most homebuilders across Scotland, no longer trusty for its availability of bungalows, but additionally on legend of of the main focal level on the atmosphere and ensuring homes are fit for the long term.”
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