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  By Natalia Siniavskaia Copyright, © 2016 National Association of Home Builders Single-family lot prices set a new record in 2015, with half of the lots priced at or above $45,000. According to NAHB’s analysis of the Census Bureauâ€...

  Copyright © 2006-2016 HW Media, LLC. All rights reserved. About 76% of Americans who are likely to vote in the 2016 presidential election say they are more likely to support candidates who make housing affordability a focus of their ca...

  By Conor Sen Copyright © 2016 Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved To understand the slow-motion trends in single-family housing, start by looking at the oil market: It took years of oil priced around $100 a barrel to spur the investme...

By Natalia Siniavskaia Copyright © 2016 National Association of Home Builders The median lot size of a new single-family detached home sold in 2015 dropped under 8,600 square feet for the first time since Census Bureau’s Survey of Constru...

OSHBA members, Oklahoma Housing Hall of Fame nominations are now open.  Click on this link to download the nomination form for the Hall of Fame. The guidelines are part of the packet, and the nominations are due by September 30.

  By Ashok Chaluvadi Copyright © 2016 National Association of Home Builders According to data from the Census Bureau’s Survey of Construction (SOC), vinyl (including vinyl-covered aluminum) was the most common principal siding mat...