Codes + Standards Napa Valley assesses impact on buildings after earthquake Downtown Napa has more than 150 buildings declared unsafe for occupancy since the quake.
features With a poor average credit score, millennials are missing out on housing recovery Most millennials – everybody aged 21 to 34 – have a credit score below 620, making them less likely to be approved for a mortgage. Jonathan...
features A brief look at metro and state employment conditions The NAR offers a brief overview of employment conditions across the country today: job growth rates are running roughly twice as fast as the...
features Are Americans Over Homeownership? Fewer Americans are buying houses than at any point in recent decades, says Salon’s Henry Grabar, but is it changing the tenor of...
features Why a window seat is a great feature for fall When it comes to the appeal of window seats, The Wall Street Journal’s Alexa Brazilian describes it best: “these nooks-with-a-view represent...
features Year-over-year figures may look bad, but that’s because 2013 was an anomaly Bloomberg View’s real estate columnist Jonathan J. Miller asserts that when it comes to year-over-year comparisons, 2013’s economic...
features Markets where autumn is springtime for housing As many people who work in the housing market know, numbers of home searches in September and October combined usually fall below...
features Not enough housing to support aging boomers, Harvard and AARP find In 2030, there will be 70 percent more adults age 50 and older in the U.S. than there were in 2000.
Lean Building Techniques to Reduce Waste at Construction Sites Gain Favor Five new methods are attracting attention
features Home prices, region to region The NAR’s Economists’s Outlook blog delves deep into reports on national trends from FHFA and Case-Shiller to examine trends on a...
