Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have settled on new energy-efficiency standards for the construction of new single-family and multifamily homes. The implementation timeline varies based on the type and location of new construction.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

The latest annual report from The Counselors of Real Estate highlights 10 major issues expected to impact the housing industry in 2024, but developers are painfully familiar with at least two of them: labor shortages and skyrocketing capital costs. The result is a sharp increase in labor costs, and longer construction times.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Real estate software development company Cedar announced this week that it has secured $3 million in seed funding to create a product that would help developers locate urban infill properties for potential development into housing.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday announced a new $175 million notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) under its Continuum of Care (CoC) program, which will go toward the development of new rental housing units with “supportive services for people experiencing homelessness ,” the department explained.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In response, multifamily construction has skyrocketed over the last year, hitting a historic high of 841,000 units under construction nationwide in June of this year, according to research from the National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. Census Bureau, the median sale price of a new construction home in March 2024 was $430,700.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters. The NHC lauded the development.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 9, 2024

is expected to set new records for apartment construction. By the end of 2024, developers plan to have completed an astounding 518,108 rental units, a startling 30% more than in 2022 and 9% more than in 2023. The overall impact on the number of developers might vary by region,” Ressler said. “In

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Late last month, Ginnie Mae released a term sheet for one of the most anticipated new developments for the reverse mortgage industry — a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) product referred to as “ HMBS 2.0.” To get a better idea of the potential impact that HMBS 2.0

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Michigan-based lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has introduced a construction-to-permanent loan that covers the cost of building a home and then converts to a permanent mortgage once construction is complete. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to lawyers. UWM, which originated $33.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It uses county-level data for single and multi-family permits to gauge housing construction growth in both urban and rural metros. The latest HBGI data continue to show a changing geography for home construction,” Robert Dietz , the NAHB’s chief economist, said in a statement. at the end of 2019 to 12% earlier in 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed. The rate of homes under construction has roughly plateaued since April 2022. The figure – up 17.7%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

metro areas that are embracing new development and “creating a more diverse and plentiful supply of homes.“ Pacaso said that these shortages have been exacerbated by various types of “municipal zoning and building ordinances [that] have historically restricted new housing construction.“ Other estimates are much higher. Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

New construction is backed up,” she said. According to Ellison, new construction in the Birmingham area typically accounts for 15% to 20% of the houses on the market at any given time, but that has not been the case over the past four years. “As

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The number of renters who favor the construction of affordable housing in their local communities is far higher than that of homeowners. The opinions of homeowners and renters on the potential remedy of increasing housing construction in their neighborhood to alleviate affordability issues differ noticeably.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Over the past five decades, real estate development in the U.S. By comparison, retail construction has slowed dramatically, averaging just 41-million square feet annually in recent years due to the rise of e-commerce. Multifamily construction, on the other hand, has seen more consistent growth. Despite this recovery, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The construction activity is likely to place the housing industry and its financing partners on a “collision course” with insurers, the outlet said. The construction figure in Florida far exceeds the next most prominent states. Developers continue to build in these areas with few obvious signs of slowing, the story said. “La

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

In certain parts of the Phoenix AMA that do not have a designated water provider, builders and developers need a certificate of AWS to obtain a building permit. Kamps added that he anticipates the prices of the 80,000 lots that already have AWS will also increase if developers chose to sell them, since there currently is a finite supply.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday announced a series of funding opportunities totaling roughly $3.86 million, which will go toward organizations aiming to boost housing inventory and availability through methods including off-site construction and office-to-residential conversions. “As

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) visited the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to tout the possibilities that 3D printing technology could bring to the construction of affordable housing in the U.S. A key goal for the project includes the deployment of local and sustainable resources for construction materials.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

New construction rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,560,000, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Single-family building activity drove November residential construction activity. Single-family building activity drove November residential construction activity.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

The new home sales sector employs construction workers and stimulates the purchase of goods and services to build those homes: everything from windows to garage doors, flooring and more. In 2023, residential constructions workers weren’t laid off like in previous economic cycles. months , the builders will pause construction.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the ongoing struggle for attainable housing, one positive development has been the increased availability of funding options for homeowners seeking to incorporate Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) into their properties. Draw structures for loans supporting new construction of ADUs, especially for prefab, are still “clunky.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The only viable solution to these problems, as other municipal leaders and housing industry experts have previously suggested, is the construction of more homes. The plan also addresses environmental impact concerns of new construction, Rubio said, by paying attention to the floodplain of Portland’s urban center.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). “The large inventory of new homes is suppressing building at this point, but with mortgage rates dropping and likely to fall more, we should see a pick up in construction later this year,” Robert Frick, a corporate economist at Navy Federal Credit Union , said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Slowdowns in new single-family construction over the summer reflected sagging builder confidence, but homebuilders appear to be more confident as mortgage rates have fallen over the past few weeks and as the Federal Reserve gets set to cut interest rates. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

Construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) is taking off, but is it bringing down housing costs? A new report from John Burns Real Estate Consulting casts doubt on it, citing uneven geographic distribution of deregulations and the high cost of construction. As a result, the most impactful ADUs are in new construction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). Additionally, mortgage applications for new homes surged in January as a lack of existing homes for sale continued to fuel the demand for new construction. New-home sales reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 661,000 in January, according to data published Monday by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A lower Fed funds rate can assist with land purchases and apartment construction, but that process would take considerable time before we see any development. I wrote an article back in 2021 when many believed a massive construction boom would last for a decade. Builders, as we know, are not charitable organizations.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Exemptions would be provided to new construction and units with “substantial” renovation and rehabilitation. In conjunction with Biden’s proposal, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it will open a public comment period on the sale of 38 acres of public land in Nevada for the purpose of affordable housing construction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. The backlog of new construction homes continues to emerge into the market just in time for the spring shopping season,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow ’s senior economist, said in a statement. New home sales started off 2023 on a positive note, rising 7.2%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

Construction starts in the BFR market are being propelled by the ongoing demand for single-family rental units as high mortgage rates and limited for-sale inventory push home-purchase prospects further out of reach of many would-be homebuyers. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Despite a 3% monthly increase , the pace of new housing construction was 4.4% Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Multi-family construction has cooled considerably, while the dip in new single-family construction was more modest,” Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at Bright MLS , said in a statement. “A

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

On a national level, housing sentiment was largely unchanged in August despite some positive developments for affordability, including a meaningful decline in actual mortgage rates and an uptick in home listings in certain markets, particularly in the Sunbelt,” Mark Palim, Fannie Mae’s vice president and deputy chief economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday announced the disbursement of $72.6 million in new funding under the Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) program, adding up to $2 million to 38 individual community recipients to bolster housing development , expansion and preservation.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. HW : We’re seeing an uptick in ground-up construction. Ground-up construction growth will be high to meet the population growth and meet the demand due to limited inventory.

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