Trends New Zealand Company Cashes in on the DIY Modular Homes Trend Flat-pack homes are increasingly popular with New Zealanders looking to build their own homes or relocate to remote places. For one company,...
Demographics Want to Retire Cheap? Follow Californians Buying Houses in the Gem State California residents are fleeing the state’s high living costs and taxes to chase an affordable retirement in places like Boise, Idaho. ...
Demographics What Are Buyers Sacrificing to Afford a Home? Making financial sacrifices to save toward a goal like buying a house is a tried and true strategy. Zillow Economic Research delved into...
Market Data + Trends Rising Home Prices Are Making Life Worse Redfin asked 3,000 respondents in June how changes to the economy over the last decade such as tax reform, the prevalence of part-time...
Energy Efficiency After Enduring Blackouts, More Californians Shifting to Storing Solar Nothing like a blackout to boost sales of solar panels and battery technology, particularly batteries. The Northern California blackouts...
Q+A NAHB Economist Robert Dietz Talks ‘Growth Recession’ and Housing in 2020 Q&A with the National Association of Home Builders' chief economist to answer some of the industry's burning questions about the housing market and economic forecast
New-Home Sales Non-Conventional Financing Backed More Than a Quarter of New Home Deals More than 25% of new homes were purchased last year with non-conventional financing. An analysis by the National Association of Home...
Demographics Why Are Millennials Buying Smaller Houses? Millennials who are able to be homebuyer prospects are seeking not only smaller houses, but also ones that are more energy efficient and...
Accessibility Age Proofing a House Isn’t Cheap Almost one-quarter of Americans will be 65 or older by 2050, and surveys conducted over the past decade show that older adults...
Off-Site Construction What Can Manufactured Housing Do for the Affordable Home Shortage? Ridaa Murad, founder of Breakform, a company that owns more than 20 communities with manufactured housing, writes in Forbes that such...
