Home Builder Profits Reached Record High in 2022 Despite Affordability Challenges

Throughout 2022, rising interest rates created affordability concerns for home builders and buyers, prolonging construction time and deteriorating sales volume even during traditionally strong seasons for homebuying. While elevated interest rates created new challenges within the new-home market, they also drove up demand for newly constructed homes as existing home inventory fell sharply, Shinn Builder Partnerships reports.

Despite affordability issues, 2022 posted the best profit performance since 1994, when the Shinn Group first started tracking profitability performance.

Average profit for The Shinn Group 2022 Comparative Financial and Operations Analysis is 14.59 percent. Dollar sales volume from 2021 to 2022 decreased less than 0.3 percent. However, unit sales volume decreased by 14.6 percent with the average price of homes sold showing an increase of 14 percent over 2021.