<b><b>Prices now average more than &amp;£100,000, but housebuilders are still willing to handover incomplete homes to buyers who have worked for years just to get their deposit together. Malcolm Pitcher argues that developers shouldn&amp;’t be surprised if they then take some flak</b></b><br><b>At one hundred grand we can&amp;’t afford to deliver anything but perfection - can we? I ask this in the light of a couple of newspaper articles which recently attracted my attention. The first, that the average new home now costs &amp;£100,000, was plastered everywhere. One hundred grand! </b><br><b>The effect of such soaring prices is clear for me to see. A good friend of mine, Natasha, is currently saving every last penny, living a life of almost total abstinence in order to put down a reasonable deposit on her first brand new home. Every week the prices seem to go higher and every week she tries harder and harder to save just a little bit more. The second article was a much lower key affair appearing only in the Sunday Times in its rather good Homes section.</b><br><b><b>training exercise</b></b><br> This article was just five paragraphs long - but within was enough material for anyone to run a whole day training …