Design How Home Builders Can Benefit From Good Design Editor Nigel Maynard chats with an architect and production builder about what classifies as "good design" and how builders can include more...
Market Data + Trends Homes on Private Islands See More Activity Amid Pandemic If you could run from the pandemic and live on a private island, would you? Muskoka, located in Ontario, Canada, is an area ripe with...
New-Home Sales To Gauge the Pandemic's Effect, Look to Raw Count of Home Sales While the seasonally adjusted numbers for home sales are important, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) says raw home sale counts are...
Affordability Home Builder's Focus on Affordable Homes 'Energizes' Richmond Market Richmond-based builder Center Creek Homes only launched two years ago, but is making waves in the city by building low-income housing....
Construction NAHB: Sales Continue to Overpower Construction Starts Drops in new-home sales may seem like a warning sign of diminishing demand, but the National Association of Home Builders says it is...
Financing Refinancing Boosts Mortgage Demand The Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index found an increase in mortgage demand last week, fueled by record low rates for...
Market Data + Trends Cities See Double-Digit Rent Decreases According to the October Rent Report from Apartment List, rent prices are dropping across the United States for some cities but rising in...
Market Data + Trends Read Between the Lines of Housing Market Numbers HousingWire warns about being led astray by negative headlines. Instead, focus on specific data to gauge housing market activity and how it...
Design Housing and Design Trends That Will Stick Around After the Pandemic One of the most influential changes to housing trends that came out from the pandemic is working from home. According to Realtor.com, the...
Financials Homeownership Wealth Gains for Second Quarter of 2020 Based on the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finance data, homeownership accounts for 90% of total wealth among all families. In the bottom 20%...