Economics Job Growth Drives Home Price Increase Instead of Rebound Effect Markets with the fastest job growth have the largest price increases
New-Home Sales A Look into the Cost-Effectiveness of Low-Down-Payment Loans Prospective buyers today have a variety of low-down-payment programs to choose from
Economics Sales Slow at Top 20 Master Planned Communities But while those numbers indicate a drop from 2013, the group still outperformed home sales nationwide, according to John Burns Real Estate Consulting
Economics Home Price Forecast Strongest for Lower Tier and Midwest Milwaukee ranks No.1, and the low end of the housing market is positioned to take the lead in price growth in 2015, according to Clear Capital's latest forecast.
Economics Falling Oil Prices: Good or Bad for Home Builders? According to the Wall Street Journal, economists differ on how falling oil prices affect the housing industry. Some economists believe...
Business Management Lennar’s Results Tell us 5 Things About the New-Home Market The fiscal fourth quarter results of Lennar Corp. contains good news for homebuyers, not so good for investors.
Business Management Home Builders: Building and Finance In some markets, banks are becoming more aggressive with construction loans and are even financing land development
Economics Housing market continues to improve While analysts continue to argue about whether or not the dip in housing sales in the first two months of 2014 is weather-related or not,...
Economics Declining homeownership in the United States The boom and bust cycle of the first decade of the 21st century had an enormous effect on U.S. homeownership rates. The overall rate in the...
Financials Double Digit Growth in Remodeling Spending Expected Through Mid-Year Gains in annual home improvement spending projected for the first half of the year should moderate some to just under 10 percent by the third quarter.