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Construction worker shortage has reached “crisis” levels

Housing Wire

To keep pace with current construction demand, and account for attrition, 740,000 new construction workers are needed each year for the next three years , a report by the Home Builders Institute contends. million new hires for construction. The construction worker shortage has reached crisis level.

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The housing market is 6.5 million units short: Realtor.com

Housing Wire

It is no secret that the housing market is suffering from an ongoing inventory drought. Existing housing inventory fell by 11,021 homes week over week for the week ending March 6, according to data from Altos Research. This resulted in the gap between single family home construction and household formation growing to 6.5

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Homebuilders are primed for an even better 2024

Housing Wire

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. million new single-family construction units in 2024.

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Texas homeownership rate reaches an all-time high

Housing Wire

The homeownership rate in Texas rose to an all-time high of 70% in the third quarter, exceeding the national metric for the first time since 2012, according to a report from the Texas A&M Real Estate Center. The report said that although lot development slowed in Q3, single-family permits and construction values “ trended upward.”.

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Pretium Partners to acquire 4,000 D.R. Horton rental homes in $1.5B deal

Housing Wire

Real estate investment management firm Pretium Partners is acquiring thousands of homes from home construction company D.R. The deal comes at a time when a lack of for-sale home inventory is boosting the appetite for homebuilders. Horton Inc. billion deal, as Bloomberg first reported. according to the firm.

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With home sales down, why are home prices still up?

Housing Wire

Looking at the housing market in the years 2020-2024, one risk i identified early on was that home prices could accelerate more in this period than we saw in the previous expansion if inventory channels broke to all-time lows. Back then, we had higher sales, higher inventory, and less price growth, but we had a massive credit bubble.

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Existing home sales dip downwards for fourth month

Housing Wire

For the NAR, this is a record high and marks 111 straight months of year-over-year gains since March 2012. “Lack of inventory continues to be the overwhelming factor holding back home sales, but falling affordability is simply squeezing some first-time buyers out of the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.

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