However – it does beg a follow-on question. What can we learn from the down-tick and later up-tick in sizes of houses being sold ? Is there rhyme-and-reason underling the observed trend (which you very accurately analyzed) ?

I think ’sizes=total price’ (i.e. it isn’t that people are all of a sudden interested in larger or smaller houses at certain times of the year).

What is interesting to ask is: is this a pattern change in demand or in supply (i.e. is the reason smaller houses were selling for a while because larger ones were not on the market, or because they were on the market but people were not buying ?).

Also – what would be interesting is to overlay it with a possible ‘culprit’: interest rates.
Is the swing in ‘house sizes’ (again in my mind possibly an ‘alter-ego’ of total-purchase-price) correlated to changes in interest rates ?

Eilam