Frances Cook

I mean, for starters, do we know much about how apartments go in general compared to other properties and also how the size of that apartment impacts things?

So they might be like investment properties that get rented out?

That's a really interesting perspective on it.

And I think as well, when they mentioned about the banks, I think that's a really important point to run to because we have seen banks get twitchy before about certain types of apartments.

So if we get rid of things like minimum size on apartments, does that then make it harder for people to do things like get bank lending?

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Yeah, and that's a really good point because as you say, when you come to Offload, if that pool of potential buyers to come in from you is so much smaller because it's people who either have a high enough income that the bank is like, sure, do whatever you like.

We just want to keep you as a customer.

Or it's people who can buy it outright.

You know, that's,