New home sales The U.S. Census Bureau data for May shows that sales of new homes fell 2.1% after improving for two months straight and inventory...
New home sales The new home sector has been hit extremely hard by the recession but the U.S. Commerce Department’s April data is finally good news...
Housing starts are down This year has experienced mixed results with new home pricing on the rise but once again housing starts hitting historic lows. The...
Six months of similar confidence levels According to the National Association of Home Builders, builder confidence in single family home construction is at the same level...
New home sales U.S. Census Bureau data released this morning shows good news for new home sales, one of the hardest hit sectors in the real...
Housing permits’ meteoric rise The U.S. Commerce Department today reports that in March, building permits which are a leading economic indicator predicting future housing starts, rose...
New home sector down, creative measures taken The new home construction sector has hit a series of speed bumps as new home sales plummeted in February...
Beazer Homes’ new vertical It was recently announced that Beazer Homes is opening a new division dedicated to buying resale houses that it will in turn...
Construction spending is down According to the Department of Commerce, construction spending dropped 1.4% in February for a third month in a row of declining spending....
It all starts in 1996 In 1996, a Reno lawyer paid $15 million for 40,000 acres and planed 160,000 houses to be built. Coyote Springs was...
Is new home data even reliable? This month marked a historic low for the new home construction sector with the lowest sales and permits in recorded...
Big fat bonus checks In 2010, several home builders awarded their top executives with big fat bonus checks despite slowing in the new home construction sector....
New home sales down According to the US Commerce Department, new home sales fell in February 17%, making it the lowest sales since recording began in...
We reported last month limping new home sales stats and despite the multifamily sector experiencing the highest levels of optimism since 2006, this month marks a...
A new study by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reveals that the housing crisis has altered the very course of consumer preferences in what...
I remember in 2004 in Austin doing a walk through with Benn on a newly built DR Horton. My pen was flying and Benn’s blue tape...
According to U.S. Commerce Department data released today, national housing starts rose 3.9% in November from October, the first uptick since August. New home construction is...
Nationwide housing starts declined 11.7% according to the U.S. Commerce Department but it’s not all bad news as single family starts only dropped 1%. The bad...
With a struggling economy and slumping real estate sector, all eyes are on signs of recovery which are slowly trickling our way. Home sales are up...
According to U.S. Commerce Department data, total housing starts jumped 10.5% in August, putting new residential building back on pace to where it was prior to...
Permits and construction Good news today in the real estate industry- new home construction was up 40.9% in April 2010 over April 2009 according to the...
Construction starting back up? The U.S. Commerce Department today reports that housing starts rose 2.8% in January to an annual rate of 591,000 yet permits for...
Construction spending hits historic lows Construction spending continued the same downward trend it exhibited all of 2009 in December, as real estate, public and private construction...
Census and HUD say new home sales fell Today in a joint release between the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development,...
Ah yes, talking points This week, the National Association of Home Builders continues repeating the talking points that sound something like “we can’t get funding so...
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