Housing Trends

Housing Trends

• Likely Voters Again Lend Support of Homeownership

  NAHB hopes to use its latest poll to further influence national politics and policy.

   
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  NAHB's New Chairman Will Push to Make Housing Relevant Again

  Barry Rutenberg sees private-public partnerships as one key.

   
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  National Survey Reveals the New Normal for Homeownership

  Record foreclosures and unprecedented home devaluations may have tarnished homeownership, but the desire to own a home remains strong.

   
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  Forecasters Push Housing Market's Recovery to 2013

  But economists and analysts cite many factors that could impede growth.

   

• Infill, Durability, and Front Porches Top the Home Design Trends Charts

  The 2011 third quarter results of The American Institute of Architects’ Home Design Trends Survey show an approximate 15 percent improvement in the custom/luxury market with outdoor spaces and smaller, greener homes remaining the most popular requests among residential clients.

   
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  BRAC Fails to Deliver Hoped-For Bump in Home Sales

  Builders say their areas have seen more renters than buyers.

   
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  Big-Box Houses Sell

  In some markets builders are attracting buyers with mansion-sized homes at cottage-size prices.

   
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  10 Business Trends to Look for in 2012

  It’s that time of year again when economists and other experts start crystal balling where they think the beleaguered U.S. economy and its housing industry could be headed in the next two years.

   

• Economic Recovery to Be Palpable in 2013, Say Three Market Watchers

  NAHB’s latest construction forecast describes a nation slowly returning to health.

   

• Remodeling Spending Expected to Soften into 2012

  The Joint Center for Housing Studies, in its latest forecast, sees few signals indicating sustained growth.

   
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  Need More Space? 30,000-Square-Foot Home for Sale in Miami

  With a price tag of $60 million, the recently completed mansion may be the area's most expensive ever.

   
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  Most Buyers Don't Want to Purchase a Trashed Home in Need of Repair

  This bodes well for builders who provide affordable new homes that are trouble-free and cost less to operate.

   
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  If You Want to Know What Buyers Want, Ask Them

  Surveying home shoppers can give you the inside track on giving them what they want.

   
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  Debt-Ridden Nation Takes a More Skeptical Look at Its Investment in Promoting Homeownership

  The threats to their industry that builders see are real, but their follow-through is uncertain.

   
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  Recovery Without Housing

  Can the economy recover without housing leading the way?

   

• Study connects housing price trends--up not down--to consumer spending

   

• In upper Manhattan, just like almost everywhere else, rent trends are proof positive that housing is in a healing mode

   

• Pending Home Sales Point to Uneven Improvements in the Short Term

  While the South and West are poised for sales gains in the coming months, the Northeast and Midwest look less promising.

   

• Harvard studies issue of Baby Boom housing turnover and remodeling trends

   

• You ask, 'how does the U.S. measure up in house price trends?' The answer is: 'next question.'