Income growth, slower home price appreciation, and falling mortgage rates all combined to ease housing affordability in the first quarter of 2019, running roughly even over the previous year.
Colorado's Sterling Ranch in Douglas County and the Peña Station Next development near Denver International Airport are at the vanguard of the area's burgeoning smart community infrastructure.
The top 10 states where upper-middle-class people are moving are located in the South and the West. Six were in the South, including top-ranked Florida.
Many urbanists argue that building more housing will help ease the affordability crunch. A forthcoming paper argues that city economies are at the heart of growing spatial inequality
In East Dallas, one of the hottest markets in the U.S. this year, new construction projects are experiencing weather delays lasting a month or longer, costing home builders and buyers.
In a study tackling affordability for the spectrum of middle class buyers, online loan marketplace LendingTree broke out the data by lower-, middle-, and upper-middle class subgroups.
Based on new data, there are now more than 2 million solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the U.S., doubling the number of installations since 2016.
In the first quarter of 2018, the share of for-sales homes in the U.S. did not post an annual decline for the first time since Q3 2016. Starter and trade-up home supply grew 3.5 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively.