New-Construction Projects How Homeowners Are Faring in the Harvey Hereafter Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in August 2017, and was the second-costliest hurricane to hit the U.S., destroying more than 204,000 homes, and...
Remodeling Projects Harvard's HouseZero Shows What Once Was Old Is Now Green The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) completed its HouseZero project, the retrofitting of its headquarters, built in the...
Economics Rates to Take Major Bite Out of Home Value Growth by 2020 According to federally-backed lender Freddie Mac's two-year forecast, rising mortgage rates may cut annual home price appreciation rates in...
Products Homeowner Trends: Kitchen Remodeling Preferences New survey data from Delta finds that homeowners are willing to pay 24 percent more on kitchen remodeling projects in the second half of...
New-Home Sales December Shopping Season Includes Homebuying Typically, December is a slow season for real estate. But the last month of 2018 may be atypical with the combination of rising interest...
Market Data + Trends Housing Recovery Illustrated Despite current bullish market conditions, many U.S. markets are still grappling with housing recovery. A new infographic depicts where...
Builders Market Softening Taking a Toll In the first week of December 2018, stock for luxury home builder Toll Brothers decreased 4.6 percent in premarket trading, attributed to...
Builders Mungo Finds New Home With Berkshire Hathaway's Clayton Properties Group Berkshire Hathaway's Clayton Properties Group, a division of Clayton Home Building Group, has acquired South Carolina-based home builder...
Financing Mortgage Rate Highest in 8 Years, Affordability Lowest According to Freddie Mac data, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased 20 basis points to 4.83 percent in October 2018, the highest since...
Affordability Where Are the Least Affordable Metros for Renters? Big cities on the coasts are commonly held to have the least affordable housing markets, but new analysis of rental affordability shows that...