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Housing starts are rising, despite cost to buyers

Housing Wire

More than a quarter of single-family homes for sale during the first quarter were new-construction homes — nearly 26%, and March housing starts jumped nearly 20% month over month to the highest level since 2006, per the latest report from Redfin. A healthy housing market is considered roughly six months of supply.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

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months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. This period was also during a lull in our prime-age labor force growth, so demand was soft during the years 2006-2011.

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Housing starts increase, but builders still lack supplies

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million in June, as construction companies broke ground on a greater number of both single-family and multifamily buildings last month. It’s the third-highest number of housing starts builders have broken ground on in one month since May of 2006, a sign of strong buyer demand. Housing starts increased 6.3% to a rate of 1.64

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U.S. home prices hit 14-year high in October

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from its former high in July 2006. Craig Lazzara, managing director and global head of Index Investment Strategy at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said that it’s likely COVID-19 has pushed buyers to move from urban apartments to suburban homes. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index covering home prices of all nine U.S.

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Building material prices take their toll on new home sales

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In order to account for uncertain prices and availability of materials, homebuilders are holding off on making homes available until they are further along in the construction process. to the highest level since 2006. This is not due to a lack of demand; quite the opposite, Speakman noted.

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5 predictions for the 2022 housing market

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Sellers saw a market where their homes sold quickly and often above list price as multiple buyers competed to have the winning bid. . Higher mortgage rates and home prices are expected to moderate buyer demand as the erosion of affordability takes a toll. The event is exclusively for HW+ members , and you can go here to register.

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As prices rise, builder confidence falls from record highs

Housing Wire

In December, all HMI indices, including current sales conditions, sales expectations and traffic of prospective buyers, also fell four points from their previous highest recorded readings in November. Policymakers should take note to avoid increasing regulatory costs associated with land development and residential construction,” Fowke said.