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...
Housing starts for the month of September rose 6.5% to an eight-year high of 1.206 million units on a seasonally-adjusted annual basis. The increase was all in the multifamily sector, rising 18.3% to 466,000. Single-family starts were virtually un...
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...
