Housing Markets These Are the Fastest Diversifying Regions in the Country Recently released Census data found an increase of Asian and Hispanic populations in the country, and diversification is happening fastest...
Energy Efficiency 20% of the Country's Planet-Heating Emissions Come From Powering Homes A significant chunk of planet-heating emissions generated by the U.S. (20%) can be attributed to heating, cooling, and lighting the country...
Market Data + Trends Zillow Predicts Price Increases Through Summer 2022 Though recent reports say there’s a cooldown happening for the housing market, Zillow predicts home prices will not start to slow until...
Codes + Standards New California Energy Code Makes Moves Toward Zero Emission Buildings The California Energy Commission recently announced the 2022 update of the statewide building energy code will require new buildings to use...
Economics NAR Reports Home Price Increases in All Tracked Metros Except One In nearly all of the 183 metros tracked by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), median home prices have increased more than 10%...
Building Materials Lumber Executive Says Lower Prices Have Rekindled Building Interest Kyle Little, COO of New York-based lumber distributor Sherwood Lumber, says current lumber prices have welcomed more construction projects,...
Innovation Can You 'Amazonify' Home Building? Modular construction company Veev says it builds four times faster than the industry standard. On this installment of HorizonTV, CEO Amit...
Innovation There’s a Long-Standing Housing Crisis for Canada’s Indigenous Population—These Firms Have a Plan to Help Just 500 people live In the remote town of Fort Severn in Ontario, but its intense struggle with a housing crisis is just one of many seen...
Housing Markets The Most Popular ZIP Codes in 2021 So Far Although the suburbs may not offer an exciting, fast lifestyle like cities often do, buyers continue to run to outlying metros in hopes of...
Affordability Zillow Predicts Affordability Issues for Renters by End of 2021 If current rent and income growth trends continue, Zillow says some of the most affordable metros will become the least affordable and many...
