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Sales of single-family homes and the median sales price last month reached the highest level for any June on record…

Single-family gains helped offset a drop in multifamily production as total housing starts edged 0.9% lower in June… Read More

June Leading Economic Index slips 0.3 percent to 111.5, first decline in seven months The US LEI fell in June,

Hempcrete is a “carbon-negative” building material. The cellulose inside 2.5 acres of hemp can absorb over 22 tons of atmospheric

Developers who do commit view certification more as a marketing tool; they recognize the LEED brand carries weight among prospective

In addition to continuing to focus on the intentional design of products optimized for healthy home attributes, it’s imperative for

The development officially opened July 15 and features 118 lower rent apartments, six townhomes and 21,000 square feet of street

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose to 65 this month; economists project… Read More Bloomberg

Large homebuilding companies have been gearing up for the past several years to bring homes to market that target first-time

Builder confidence edges up one point to 65 in July Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes rose

Florida residents need homes that can stand up to the strongest storms, and they increasingly want environmentally sustainable features… Read

A 27-unit, 33-bedroom proposal is the only project that surpasses sustainability requirements by promising to be a net-zero energy building…

Whatever your preferred design style, harnessing the power of these basic design principles will help you create a space that

The plan is to build 75 more single-family homes on slightly larger lots and have more green spaces… Read More

Gen Z, those under the age of 24, will be the largest group of homebuyers by 2026 with about 82

New age-restricted communities are responding to demographic shifts that mean more wealthy, older homebuyers are in the market to move…

June Producer Price Index 1.7 rose percent year-on-year, lowest annual rate since January 2017 The Producer Price Index for final

After California passed legislation mandating solar panels on all homes built after 2019, a new poll finds that people want

From modest to luxury, multigenerational construction makes good sense, no matter what the situation… Read More The Post and Courier

Fort Point trade means $86 million to help develop homes for middle-income earners in Mattapan and elsewhere… Read More Curbed

Chalk it up to a low jobless rate, strong housing prices and prudent bankers… Read More MarketWatch www.marketwatch.com/story/housing-market-distress-is-at-its-lowest-in-at-least-20-years-can-it-hold-2019-07-10

Once again, the rate remains significantly higher than the same time period in 2018 when it averaged 4.52 percent… Read

CPI up 0.1 percent in June and 1.6 percent year-on-year The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased

United States Green Building Council is soliciting ideas, proposals and feedback from improving LEED v4.1 and future versions of LEED…

Design experts Katie Treggiden and Tiffany Grant-Riley show some of the ways that construction could change through sustainable builds… Read

Interior design technology can show customers how their homes or the poolside will look with different configurations of furniture… Read

A handful of cities have found some new policy ideas to address a problem that doesn’t have a silver-bullet solution…

Builders learned not to oversaturate the market as they did in the bubble a decade ago… Read More MarketWatch www.marketwatch.com/story/its-green-shoots-for-the-housing-market-home-builders-say-2019-06-28

More rooftops soon will rise in Berkeley County after the nation’s largest home builder purchased several hundred.… Read More The

June job openings fell 0.7 percent, still 1.4 million more than the officially unemployed Job openings fell 0.7 percent in

After five years of planning, Windsor officials have approved construction of an apartment complex that will be the town’s most

The winning design will be built by megadeveloper Related Midwest on two city-owned vacant lots… Read More WBEZ News www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/meet-the-21st-century-chicago-bungalow/91f7897a-7c9a-4c15-a454-1bec99c46686

Municipal leaders encourage developers to incorporate affordable housing into projects using subsidies, tax credits, and zoning changes… Read More The