Building Materials How to Navigate Appraisals Amid Volatile Building Material Prices From softwood lumber to gypsum, builders are facing new highs in building material prices and new delays in shipments. Lumber prices reached...
Market Data + Trends Construction Outpaces Population Growth—What Does That Mean for Demand? Housing inventory may be low now, but the comparison between new construction and population growth reveals a trend of overbuilding, says...
Construction New-Home Construction Reaches Highest Level Since 2006 New-home construction starts and permits reached the highest level since 2006 in December, according to MarketWatch. Builders began...
New-Construction Projects New Survey Finds 45% of Americans Would Move if They Could Telecommute An increasing number of Americans working from home provides builders with the opportunity for cheaper projects at a higher scale. According...
Construction Could More Construction Put an End to Climbing Home Prices? The story of buyers being outbid is a common one as home inventory remains low and prices continue to climb, but relief could be on the way....
New-Home Sales New Home Sales Flatten from September to October Sales of newly built single-family homes slipped slightly in October, but remains at a strong year-over-year high, says the National...
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...
New-Construction Projects Single-Family Home Construction Time Increases Again It took an average of 8.1 months to finish constructing a single-family home in 2019, from authorization to start until completion. In 2014,...
Multifamily New Multifamily Construction Drops by 25% from July to August New home starts in August continued a year-over-year increase, but experienced a 5% decrease from the previous month. This does not...
Market Data + Trends NAHB: Small Metro Suburbs Are Only Region Seeing Quarterly Gains Like many buyers who choose to flee compact urban areas, residential home builders are shifting toward the suburbs. For single-family...
