Codes + Standards EPA toughens rules to reduce formaldehyde exposure from composite wood products Composite wood products that are sold, supplied, offered for sale, manufactured, or imported in the U.S. will need to be labeled as TSCA Title VI compliant.
features Rent Rate Grows For Single-Family Homes More single-family homes are being rented, and more rentals are single-family homes. A Zillow report found that, in 2015, 18.8 percent of...
features Las Vegas Remains Monument To Housing Crisis What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas — particularly crippling debt. Jack Healy of the The New York Times wrote a feature story on the...
features Home Prices Continue To Fare Well In June For the last few years, home prices have consistently risen by five percent each month and year, according to data from CoreLogic. ...
features Modular Homes Model For Modern Living Modular homes are quite popular today, but they’re exactly not new. Factory-built homes popped up in the late 1940s to accommodate soldiers...
features Climate Change Could Crush Coastal Cities Earlier this year, scientists estimated that if carbon emissions continue unabated, sea levels could rise six feet by the year 2100. If that...
features Survey Says Many Couples Split Down Payments In this day and age, couples aren’t afraid to split up… their down payments for a new house. NerdWallet conducted an online survey of...
Economics Starters, Trade-Ups, And Premium Home Sizes Vary By Metro People who want space should head to Texas.
Codes + Standards Fannie Mae, HUD offer financing to make PVs more affordable Fannie Mae is offering the lowest cost of capital for new solar installations to date.
features Ubiquitous Drywall Has Its Downsides Drywall is noncombustible, light and cheap, and absolutely commonplace, with 20 billion square feet of the gypsum-based product manufactured...