Codes + Standards Solar panels add average of $15,000 to home values Buyers willing to pay more for a house with photovoltaics
Market Data + Trends Research: House Size, Client Budgets, & Cost Increased in 2014 Builders and designers report what has happened during the past three years with cost per square foot, house size, and buyer income
Codes + Standards Construction begins on largest geothermal-equipped housing development in U.S. A ground-source heat pump will be required in every unit.
features Disaster-Chic Homes: What’s Their Allure? Gizmodo documents the bizarre trend where designers and builders are developing homes for upscale buyers that greatly resemble temporary...
features What Happens When Baby Boomers Are Gone? The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies looks into the future to predict what the housing market will look like as Baby Boomers age and...
features New-Home Sizes Shrink as First-Time Buyers Enter market The median size of newly built homes in the U.S. registered 2,385 square feet in the fourth quarter of 2014, down from 2,414 in the third,...
features Two-Thirds of Realtors Don’t Find Home Builder New-Home Sales Training Useful According to Realty Times, many real estate agents are showing interest in selling new homes. One expert writes that this is because of a...
features Custom Home Building Experiences Growth The NAHB’s analysis of Census Data noted significant growth in the custom home building market in 2014. The data came from the Census’...
features Analysts See Turning Point for First-Time Homebuyers As investors and cash buyers back off, analysts project that a renaissance of first-time homebuyers is approaching. An average of 15.2...
New-Home Sales Louisville Development to Be Largest Geothermal Community in the U.S. A ground-source heat pump will be required in every unit.