Codes + Standards Credit bureaus begin compiling rent payment information for credit reports Making timely rent payments could help first-time home buyers improve their credit scores
Sales + Marketing Best Practices New-Home Sales: Inspect What You Expect Now more than ever, it's critical to measure, evaluate, and improve your sales process
features Demographic shifts affect U.S. affordable housing Unclear demographic shifts create uncertainty in U.S. affordable housing, writes director of Municipal Enterprise Group Lawrence Witte....
features More than 1 million subcontractors have left their jobs Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show that nearly 1.4 million specialty trade employees – masons, plumbers, painters, electricians, and...
features Housing market recovery is steady, but not yet robust, consumers say A Fannie Mae survey finds that though consumer confidence in the housing market reflects steady but slow recovery, we are still far from the...
features Government statistics indicate strong job growth According to the National Association of Realtors, latest BLS reports indicate nearly 80 percent of the 372 metropolitan areas have...
features Year-over-year inventory increases by 15.4 percent Housing blog Movoto reports that that there were 104,157 homes on the market last month compared to 90,264 the year before. Among major...
features The backyard cottage as key to urban planning As urban planners wrangle with providing sufficient housing, one planning scholar talks with Fast Company and suggests that backyard...
features Building green costs going down Research conducted by McGraw Hill Construction shows the cost to build green homes is higher than the cost of construction of other homes,...
Codes + Standards $1 billion master-planned development in California clears key hurdle Five hundred affordable housing units seal the deal for the 981-acre development.
