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As real-estate market conditions continue to inflate and rise in major and medium cities where growth is fast, many starter homes are only affordable in the outer suburbs and generally come in the form of townhouses. The American Dream of a single-family home on a lot is becoming more exclusive to the wealthy as suburbs approach build-out and the distance to work ratio is at its maximum. Developers now are heavily influenced by land prices, perceived value, city planning law, construction costs, and maintaining profit margins. This has caused many developers to either develop many low-cost townhomes densely or large single-family mansions at high sale prices. In locations with a lack of 's Real Estate Journal (latest available data). Cities, whether suburban or the central core, have generally moved to a trend of master planned communities where large tracts of land are set aside for one complete build-out in order to maintain low costs to the developer and provide essential affordable and entry-level housing. Commercial and retail components are almost always included in these starter home communities. The idea of the "starter home" as the first of a number of houses which a person might own over his lifetime has given rise to terms including ", The Brazen Careerist blog applying the idea to different contexts. The term was first seen in print in the late 1970s as a part of promotional real estate jargon. SEE ALSO FURTHER READING
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