<p>New analysis released on December 30 reveals that the housebuilding industry is building bigger homes with more bedrooms - and that the number of houses built last year was higher than that ten years ago.</p> <p>The new report from the Home Builders Federation, entitled Goodness Spacious Me finds that the number of bedrooms built increased from 385,000 in 2008/09 to 478,000 in 2015/16.</p> <p>This, says the report, was largely as a result of the shift to building more family homes. Over the same period the percentage of flats built dropped from 50% of the new homes in 2008/9 to just 25%, whilst the number of houses increased from, 80,000 to 120,000. The average size of a new build homes increased by nearly 15% from an estimated 801 square feet to 918 square feet.</p> <p>HBF says that the report underlines how housing supply has rebounded since the financial crash of 2008/09 that saw many housebuilders disappear and others shedding up to 50% of their staff. “As a result of a more positive economic and policy environment the industry has rapidly increased the number and type of homes it has built to better match demand,” says HBF. “Indeed, whilst more dwellings were …