Affordability While Home Sales Surged, Entry Level Sputtered Another take on the surge of new-home sales during August is that the entry-level product became more expensive. The buying was all in...
Sales New-Home Sales Flirt With 12-Year High New-home sales rose to 713,000 in August, up 7.1% from a revised figure of 666,000 in July and just shy of a 12-year high set in June. ...
Green Design Berkeley Natural-Gas Ban for New Buildings Sparks Nationwide Trend Berkeley, Calif., banned the use of natural gas in newly constructed buildings in July. The move seems to have sparked a trend for other...
features Can Googletown Get Suburban Workers Out of Their Cars? Google wants to put a 21st Century spin on the Manufacturing Age development of the company town. The search engine giant intends to...
Economics Consumer Confidence Falls to 3-Month Low The Consumer Confidence Index, reported by the Conference Board, slipped 9.1 points from 134.2 in August to 125.1 in September, as...
Multifamily Apartment Demand Exceeds Supply Almost Everywhere While more apartments have been built in the nation’s top 150 major markets since 2010, there are a half million more renters than units...
Trends Rentals Becoming America’s Newest Neighbor Not only were single-family rentals (SFR) born from the ashes of the Great Recession, this sector has some legs. While attention on SFR...
Single-Family Homes Home Building Is Half an Industry A John Burns Real Estate Consulting report shows that of the top 10 U.S. metro markets, only Houston and Dallas built as many or more single...
Economics Home Values May Be Turning: Case Shiller Whether the late summer real estate market favored buyers or sellers may be leaning toward the sellers (at least until September figures are...
Sales + Marketing Startup Helps Landlords Turn Rental Rooms Into Pay-by-the-Week Rooming Houses An Atlanta startup wants to help property owners make more money from single-family homes. The company, PadSplit, says the market is ready...