Townhomes Townhouse Construction Starts Slump During Third Quarter Medium-density housing lags behind, with townhouse construction starts dropping 3% year over year in the third quarter of 2020. Third...
Housing Markets Cities Where Buyers Can Afford the Most and Least Housing affordability continues to be an issue for many Americans. Nearly 67% of Americans are bunkered down by at least one non-mortgage...
Net Zero Could Every U.S. Home Be Retrofitted to Zero-Energy? The average American home still runs on fossil fuels, but one report has found a feasible plan to transform each home into a zero-energy one...
Market Data + Trends Sales of Existing Homes Surge in October Existing home sales surpassed expectations last month, advancing 4.3% compared with September. This brings the year-over-year growth to 26.6...
Smart Home Smart Home Technology for Aging in Place Both aging in place and smart home technology are becoming increasingly important to homeowners. We chatted with an aging in place and...
Home Design Could This Be the Future of Production Building? Editor Nigel F. Maynard sits down with Oaxaca Interests LLC President and Developer Brent Jackson to discuss an experimental production-home...
Multifamily Concessions Now Offered by a Third of Rental Listings An increasing number of landlords are offering concessions in order to bolster the suffering rental market. Zillow reports 33.9% of the site...
New-Construction Projects New Single-Family Homes Point Toward Size Increases Following years of steady decline, single-family home sizes appear to be leveling off. According to the National Association of Home...
Market Data + Trends Mortgage Demand Increases for First Time This Month After a brief pause for the presidential election, mortgage applications are now back to booming. For the week, mortgage applications to...
Construction Single-Family Starts Drive New-Home Construction Surge The number of new-home construction starts jumped 4.9% from September to October, Realtor.com reports. Builders began construction at a...