Market Data + Trends What’s Your Home’s Flood Risk Score? A shortcoming of FEMA flood maps is they’re dated, look backwards, and don’t account for the impact of climate changes since they were drawn...
Affordability Disasters Plus Coronavirus Complicate Recovery Wildfires and hurricanes exert emotional and financial hardship on their own, but combining those natural disasters with a pandemic can...
Lighting Lighting and the 55+ Buyer Want to help a 55+ home buyer find their black pants amid a closet full of navy blue outfits? “This is where thoughtful lighting comes...
Sales Housing Continues to Withstand the Pandemic While the pandemic has hammered retail, hospitality, restaurants, and many other sectors of the economy, the housing market continues to...
New-Home Sales New Construction Home Sales Surged in July The notion that new home sales are being driven by buyers fleeing to the suburbs might be debatable, but the impact of tight inventory and...
Building Materials Spring COVID Shutdowns Lead to Slim Lumber Stock for Summer The lingering effect of lumber mills shutting down during March due to COVID-19 and struggling to resume production to pre-pandemic levels...
Sales Home Prices Still Showing Signs of Recovery The latest figures in a most-watched home price index still suggests that housing stock is tight and low interest rates for mortgage loans...
Sales Realtor Survey: Sales Rebound Likely to Continue Will the economic recovery be a W, a K, or a hockey stick? At least for the housing market, the line graph is looking like a V-shaped...
Multifamily How Multifamily Housing Can Survive the Pandemic Are multifamily housing and density doomed? Are people going to be repulsed by the idea of riding an elevator, sharing a common entry, or...
Sales Is the Housing Market on a Sugar High? Americans are rushing to buy homes right now, but should you be one of them? Much has been made about consumers desiring to leave the...