July 2015
U.S. Home-Builder Confidence Hits Highest Level in Nearly a Decade
A gauge of home-builder sentiment hit its highest level since November 2005, reflecting confidence in a steadily improving U.S. housing market. An index of builder confidence in the market for new single-family homes stood at [...]
April 2015
New Residential Construction – March 2015
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development jointly announced the following new residential construction statistics for March 2015: Building Permits, Housing Starts and Housing Completions. Read the full report here [...]
January 2015
Housing Finishes 2014 Up
Total housing starts for 2014 topped the one million mark for the first time since 2007. Census and HUD reported December housing starts and revised estimates for October and November that pushed total construction to [...]
December 2014
Housing Starts in U.S. Exceed 1 Million Pace for Third Month
Housing starts declined 1.6 percent, the first drop since August, to a 1.03 million annualized rate from a revised 1.05 million pace in October that was stronger than previously estimated, figures from the Commerce Department [...]
November 2014
Regional Differences in New Homes Started in 2013
The most economical new single-family homes are started in the South, where not only lots are least expensive but sale and contract price per square foot are lowest in the nation. These homes rarely have [...]
Townhouse Market Growing
Total townhouse construction was up on a year-over-year basis during the third quarter of 2014. According to NAHB analysis of Census data of Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design, single-family attached starts totaled 20,000 [...]
September 2014
New home sales jump to six-year high
"After falling for two straight months, nationwide sales of new homes jumped 18 percent in August to the highest level since May 2008." Read the full article on the Washington Business Journal.