Does the real estate market increasingly force more families to build?

In today's used market, old buildings with sash windows, without open kitchens, with large hallways and of course radiators, sell for top prices if well maintained and if they have good substance. And a good location. Houses are not cars. Location and atmosphere matter more than this and that in terms of extras.

Technology becomes outdated eventually. Will anyone count in 30 years for a Smart Home system installed today?

How did my (great)grandparent generation still manage that? 70-hour weeks underground or at the hut or as housewives with children and few helpers, an allotment garden on the side and solidarity everywhere nonetheless. The workday was only over when you couldn’t help anywhere else anymore. They also raised more children than today alongside all that. Starting with an outhouse and a coal stove. Either they were all Superman, or maybe it’s true after all: Our modern lifestyle makes us physically weak, mentally poor, and socially less involved...

Go to the nearest library (it’s like Wikipedia, but only accessible analog), grab textbooks from that time, and take them for reading.
Working hours were longer but the pressure was lower. Likewise, the output per worker was considerably smaller than today and thus the overall burden as well, especially since production always required craftsmanship but mostly no cross-professional qualifications.
Anyone who thinks you can simply transfer that to today has simply no idea how things worked back then.

BTW:
Humanity’s behavior has not advanced a millimeter in the last 140 years. It’s still about maximum profit and the enforcement of one’s own interests without consideration of the resulting consequences for others.
Where does this wisdom come from? I have books from that time at home and have read through the currently roughly 130,000 pages comprehensive collection.
You can draw a lot of conclusions from that.

Humanity's actions have not progressed one bit in the last 140 years. It is still about maximum profit and asserting one's own interests without regard for the resulting consequences for others.

You don't need to read 1000 pages for that, unfortunately, you notice it every day...

My question was rhetorical. What you describe is correct, but I don’t have to read about it, I experience it in (almost) daily work with people.

Today, people are supposed to have more professional skills, to think across disciplines and holistically. As employees, mind you. As consumers, humans should at the same time be influenceable, moldable, alienated from themselves.

Both at the same time is not possible, but in our training institutions the focus is mainly on the latter. As a result, people eventually end up in positions that sound impressive, but still really can’t do much. If they notice it, they are overwhelmed and burn out; if they don’t, those are precisely the competence fugitives who are already posturing in “important positions” today.

And the child generation of such parents is really in deep trouble.

Who decorates their house today with frills because “everyone does it”… well, that’s also somewhat consumption-driven. Preservation of value, please...

Comfort is a much better and more understandable argument.

The working hours were longer but the pressure was lower. Likewise, the output per worker was significantly smaller than today and thus the overall burden, especially since production always required craftsmanship, but mostly did not require interdisciplinary qualifications.

An important observation! That's how it is. People had to work hard in the past. But there were also quiet positions at the post office, railway, or government office. And fewer temporary jobs and lifelong learning like today....

On the topic of housing in general: For quite a few people, large rooms and gardens are a burden. Many only realize this over time and with increasing age. Today, people are professionally highly demanded, and not everyone feels like tinkering around the house on weekends.