Market Data + Trends Where Homeowners Will Be Impacted Most by the New Tax Law President Donald Trump is expected to visit California this week, a state with the top five housing markets hit hardest by the recently...
Codes + Standards Proposed Standards Would Have Saved 84 Percent of Homes From Harvey Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner plans to put stricter building standards to City Council vote in March 2018. Analysis from Houston Public...
Market Data + Trends Evaluating February 2018 Job Growth by 13 Metrics In February 2018, the U.S. added 313,000 jobs, with the number of jobs growing 1.6 percent over the past year. The unemployment rate was...
Market Data + Trends Despite Hot Market, Some Sellers Are Still Stressed New research on home sellers from Zillow shows that about one-third feel unsatisfied with the process, and over a third said they struggled...
Market Data + Trends States Where Job Markets Have Not Recovered to Pre-Crisis Levels A recent report from labor market analytics website Emsi says that the share of jobs still lost from the Great Recession are highest in...
Market Data + Trends The Relationship Between Code Changes and Market Reaction Traditionally, innovative and superior building practices in the home building industry and their market adoption drive changes in building...
Market Data + Trends Realtor Survey Shows Price Change Expectations Over Next 12 Months A January 2018 survey of Realtors showed that most respondents expected the median home price change for the next 12 months to be 3.6...
Affordability More and More ADUs Are Popping Up in Portland In Portland, Oregon a housing state of emergency has been in effect since 2015. To address it, the city has created one of the most...
Trends Where Homes Are Selling Fastest, Slowest in the U.S. The national median for number of days a house is for sale on the market hit a record low last spring. New data show how fast and slow homes...
Codes + Standards This Week's Codes and Standards, March 5 Stagnating energy demand, OSHA votes on enforcement of beryllium exposure rules, and comparing the value of the HERS Index and energy codes
