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More Women Working in Construction in 2022

Eyes on Housing

The number of women employed in the construction industry increased to over 1.28 million in 2022, as the construction industry recovered all jobs lost during the pandemic. of the construction workforce, up from 9.3% Currently, women make up 10.9%

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More Women Working in Construction in 2021

Eyes on Housing

The number of women employed in the construction industry increased to over 1.24 million in 2021, as the construction industry was quickly recovering jobs lost earlier during the pandemic induced recession. Currently, women make up 11% of the construction workforce, up from 9.3%

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How will rising rates affect new home construction?

Housing Wire

Census Bureau released their construction report for February, showing a positive trend in housing construction data with a lovely print in housing permits at 1,859,000 and housing starts at 1,769,000. So far, housing construction has done well during 2020-2022 considering the economic drama. Today, the U.S.

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Homebuilders are done until mortgage rates fall

Housing Wire

Tuesday’s housing starts report clearly shows that homebuilders are going to be done with single-family construction until mortgage rates fall. If it wasn’t for solid rental demand boosting multifamily construction this year — 18% year to date —this data line would have looked much worse. Why do I call it a housing recession?

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Dominion Financial adds Dustin Wells to head up wholesale division

Housing Wire

Last month, Dominion launched a third-party origination platform for brokers, improving access to products such as debt-service-coverage ratio (DSCR) loans, short-term fix-and-flip financing, ground-up construction financing and bridge loans for multifamily properties. with a total origination volume of more than $3 billion. .

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Housing starts data lags reality of higher mortgage rates

Housing Wire

Census Bureau released their new residential construction report for April, showing a miss on the estimate and a negative revisions data line, which I believe is lagging behind the current market reality. As you can see below, the housing demand data from 2002 to 2005 was never apparent in any housing data lines from 2018 to 2022.

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The housing market recession continues, despite starts data

Housing Wire

From the National Association of Home Builders : Looking at the housing starts report, the numbers came in slightly better than anticipated, driven by multifamily construction. Still, it’s backward-looking and the growth in multifamily construction, which we desperately need to cool down rental inflation, has recently been positive.