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Elevated borrowing costs remain the top worry for homebuilders

Housing Wire

single-family homes for sale were new construction, similar to the percentage from a year earlier and good for the highest level of any fourth quarter on record. In 2011, only 13% of homebuilders worried about the cost of labor, versus 87% in 2019. An estimated 668,000 new homes were sold in 2023, 4.2% Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Seniors aging in place in Chicago could reshape city’s housing market

Housing Wire

Construction Coverage , a company that reviews construction software, insurance, and financial products in order to assist property builders, recently released a new report taking a closer look at the divide between baby boomers’ and younger generations’ shares of metropolitan housing markets according to reporting at the Chicago Sun-Times.

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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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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

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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Making housing more affordable by bridging the affordable supply gap

Housing Wire

Since 2011, the number of existing single-family homes for sale has declined more than 30%. As Candace Taylor writes in The Wall Street Journal , “These days, buyers eschew the large, ornate houses built in [previous] years in favor of smaller, more-modern looking alternatives.”

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Homebuilders say housing starts will fall even further in 2023

Housing Wire

The NAHB/ HMI report is based on a monthly survey of NAHB members, in which respondents are asked to rate both current market conditions for the sale of new homes and expected conditions for the next six months, as well as traffic of prospective buyers of new homes.

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Homes in Boise, Idaho are “flying off the market”

Housing Wire

In high-demand areas where only one or two properties come on the market, maybe in a month, we’re seeing [buyers paying] upwards of $100,000 to $150,000 over asking price.”. Notably, in 2011, existing home prices in Ada County were at $160,113. New construction continues to take more and more of our market,” Dopp said.

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