Green Design Can a Home Help You Live Longer? Are claims that residents can live healthier in a domicile with circadian lighting, hospital-grade filtered air, and pollutant-free water...
Design How to Include Sensory Elements in Home Design Sensory design is the strategy in architecture of designing spaces to appeal to multiple human senses (sight, sound, scent, taste, touch). ...
New-Home Sales Sales at Master-Planned Communities Exceed Expectations RCLCO’s midyear report on the top selling master-planned communities (MPCs) indicates sales by year-end could increase 10% from 2018. ...
Demographics Why This Urban Millennial Loves Her Small Town For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. census figures have shown that thousands of Millennials and younger Gen Xers are leaving big cities....
Financing Slow Payments Cost Contractors $64 Billion Annually Delayed payments are costing both general contractors and subcontractors tens of billions annually, according to a new study. The study was...
Building Materials Cool Pavement Can Make People Hotter Cool pavements—reflective coatings or additives applied to concrete and asphalt—could have an unfortunate byproduct. New research conducted...
Affordability Will California’s New ADU Laws Create a Backyard Building Boom? Time will tell if new state laws allowing Californians to build a small apartment in their backyard and convert the garage into an accessory...
Remodeling Sales + Marketing The Top 10 U.S. Markets for Flipping There is a mantra in real estate flipping that investors really make money when they buy property, not when they sell it. Realtor.com's...
Builders Utah’s Largest Homebuilder Reaches 20,000 House Milestone After building 20,000 homes in 31 years, you’d think Ivory Homes would have settled on its approach. But as Utah’s largest homebuilder...
Single-Family Homes Renters Only, Homebuyers Need Not Apply NexMetro Communities started building single-family homes for rent in 2010 ostensibly for families that lost their homes to foreclosure and...