Codes + Standards San Jose’s New Building Energy Code Is the Most Stringent Among Large Cities San Jose recently passed a new building energy code with the goal of making zero-emission electric buildings the norm. The new code in...
New-Home Sales Millennial Homebuyers Are Pushing the New-Home Market Home builder Taylor Morrison says the surge in new housing starts is being powered in part by Millennial buyers. Consumers are “changing...
New-Home Sales 10 Cities Unlikely to See a Housing Crash When the Next Recession Happens When the next recession occurs, some metro areas, such as Buffalo and Hartford, will have lower risks than others of a housing downturn. ...
Innovation The Ultimate High-Performance Home This award-winning home by Health-E Community Enterprises is just one example of the lessons builders will learn at this year's Energy and...
Market Data + Trends How Wealthy Are Owners Who Bought at the Bottom? Homeowners who bought low during 2012 could sell really high right now. Collectively, they have $203 billion in home equity. Individually...
Economics 13 Great Places in America According to Urban Planners The urban planners at American Planning Association released its annual list of Great Places in America. This year they chose 13 urban...
Trends Coworking Accommodations Are the Latest Multifamily Amenity In a bid to lure the kind of young, well-educated, relatively high-earning residents who are most likely to do remote work, developers are...
Financing Where Can Renters Become Homeowners Quicker? SmartAsset created a rent vs. buy calculator that determines the amount of time for which buying a home makes more sense than renting. ...
Affordability While Home Sales Surged, Entry Level Sputtered Another take on the surge of new-home sales during August is that the entry-level product became more expensive. The buying was all in...
Sales New-Home Sales Flirt With 12-Year High New-home sales rose to 713,000 in August, up 7.1% from a revised figure of 666,000 in July and just shy of a 12-year high set in June. ...
