By Paul Emrath
Editor’s note: With the end of 2015 approaching, NAHB’s Eye on Housing is reviewing the posts that attracted the most readers over the last year. In September, we used industry survey data to examine a perspecti...
By Heather Taylor
Editor’s Note: With the end of 2015 approaching, NAHB’s Eye on Housing is reviewing the posts that attracted the most readers over the last year. In August, we published survey data that contrasted preferences betw...
By Paul Emrath
NAHB has released estimates of spending on improvements to owner-occupied housing by zip code. The estimates are based on a model relating improvement spending to five key variables (number of homes in the...
By Robert Dietz
NAHB’s analysis of Census Data from the Quarterly Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design survey indicates that the number of custom home building starts (homes built on an owner’s land, with either the owner or a buil...
By Jing Fu
Energy prices rebounded and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose moderately in October.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.4% in Octobe...
Editor's note: This article was originally published on the NAHB's Eye on Housing blog
NAHB's analysis of the most recent Census Bureau's Survey of Construction (SOC) shows that in 2014 custom home building expanded across all regions of the U...