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The Washington Post reports that the price of a home is more than just the cost of the land, location, materials, and labor. After several...

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No More Golf Courses for Boomers?

With no single trend among boomers on where to retire, it can be said that the 55-plus market is everyone’s market.

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UPDATED: Top 100 Products 2016 In the past 12 months, building product manufacturers introduced a vast number of new products, many of...

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Wall Street Journal real estate bloggers Nick Timiraos and Josh Zumbrun report that a big share of July’s gain in housing construction comes...

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Once a renter, not always a renter

A discussion on housing policy often misses the point that renters can become homeowners and vice-versa, Robert Dietz writes for U.S. News....

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Surge in home remodeling as economy improves

As the economy grows and interest rates remain low, The Boston Globe reports that home improvement companies across Massachusetts are...

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How appealing will your homes be in 50 years?

Tract homes don’t have quite the appeal they had immediately after World War II, but Modernica Blog was able to find well-maintained tract...

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Closet-sized homes have been the norm for some time in dense Asian and European cities, and now developers in the U.S. and Canada are...

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The disappearing first-time homebuyer

The share of mortgages to first-time buyers continues to decline, dropping to 56 percent last year, Wall Street Journal bloggers Nick...

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Housing starts surge; suppliers benefit

Data from the government shows an increase in housing starts.

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