Agreed concrete can be brilliant when used in the right way's but unfortunately are mortgage lenders don't like the stuff, the insulation value of the 50's stuff is pretty rotten and it has a nasty habit of blowing if water gets in which is difficult to fix without replacement which is why lenders h...

You can blame building regs for the influx of timber frame houses, the insulation values demanded make timber frames really the only choice for sane money. Though of course there are good timber frame constructions as well as bad, I know of a lot of 1920's stuff which is appalling in construction wh...