Tag Archives: Housing Headlines

  By CHRIS KIRKHAM Copyright ©2016 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A persistent shortage of construction workers across the U.S. is prompting some of the nation’s largest home builders to experiment with a model they o...

  By Samantha Sharf  Forbes Magazine   In July the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the homeownership rate in this country had hit its lowest level since the government began measuring the stat in 1965. Then candidate Donald Tr...

  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 Brian Collins Copyright © 2016 SourceMedia. All rights reserved. Banks increased their lending to single-family homebuilders in the first quarter by $2.3 billion, nearly 18% higher compared to the same quarter in 2015, according t...

      Home builders remain confident but they face a labor shortage and that could impact home construction this Spring. So says David Crowe. The chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders joins John Wordock.   ...

  Editor’s note: NAHB’s Housing Headlines featured this article from the Los Angeles Times. For millions of young adults who make up the largest and best-educated generation in American history, coming of age in the wake of the Great ...