Market Data + Trends Builders Are Optimistic Despite Drop in Housing Starts at the End of 2017 Economists forecasted housing starts totaling 1.28 million in December 2017, falling 8.2 percent to a 1.19 million annual rate. Home...
Market Data + Trends Remodeling Spending to Rise in 2018 New projections show that homeowner remodeling spending will be roughly $340 billion in 2018, up 7.5 percent from estimated spending in 2017...
Trends The Best and Worst States for Retirees in the U.S. While Florida may be a retirement 'mecca', other states including Colorado, Virginia, Iowa, and South Dakota were recently ranked as some of...
Market Data + Trends Issues High on Builders' Minds for 2018 The top problem builders expect to face in 2018 is the cost and availability of labor, an issue for 82 percent of builders in 2017. In a...
New-Construction Projects The Conversion Question in Washington, D.C. To encourage conversions of older commercial buildings for residential use in the nation's capital, where the office vacancy rate is around...
Market Data + Trends States With the Highest Property Tax Burdens Are on the Coasts According to new analysis of 2016 Census data, property owners in the New York metropolitan area, at $7,471, pay the highest real estate...
Market Data + Trends Top 10 States Most Dependent on the Federal Government New data show that Southern states are the most reliant on the federal government, with three states in the top 5, and no states in the ...
Affordability Housing Inventory Shortage Spurs on Granny Flat Housing Boom On the West Coast where limited inventory and a lack of affordable housing affect most housing markets, accessory dwelling units (ADUs or ...
Market Data + Trends Beachy Keen: the Most Affordable Beach Towns in 2018 For the third year in a row, Gulfport, Mississippi was named the most affordable beach town in the U.S., with a median home value of $116...
Market Data + Trends Employment Increased in November 2017 in Almost All States According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 2016 to 2017, 47 states increased employment. In November 2017, payroll...