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Originally Posted by John_W
I remember reading something like that, but it wasn't 10%. The ten percent seems really high when you consider the entire US. From what I could find, there are about 650,000 to 700,000 new homes built each year, so 10% would be 65,000 built in a year, that's more homes than in the entire Villages. The best I could find was in 2011 The Villages built about 1% of all new homes. They had been averaging about 2,000 new homes a year in the Brownwood area, and 1% meant that a down year was probably only about 200,000 new homes built in the US.
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You are correct, common sense says that even during one of the slowest growing period for new home sales...it certainly wasn't 10% of all homes in the United States being sold here.
That's how false rumors start.
I'm not sure what this site uses for its statistics, but at least it's a little more believable.
82 Cool Facts About The Villages
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7. In 2011, The Villages sold almost one percent of all the new homes in the entire United States.
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And it's a good site for promoting a lot of good things about TV.
Except of course this part, which we all know...is a fairy tale.
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31. At build out there will be 621 holes of golf in The Villages FL.
33. By final build out The Villages will operate 12 country-club championship courses.
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