Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Despite bolstering its construction activities and the availability of single-family homes , the state of Florida continues to endure shortages in its affordable housing stock that impact the workforce and retirees living on fixed incomes. Sales volume was also higher in the populous Southeast Florida counties and Orange County.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2025

The housing construction cycle reached its peak in 2022, unless mortgage rates decrease. As I noted in June 2021 that rising mortgage rates would ultimately signal the end of the housing construction cycle. Instead, they need to focus on managing the supply they currently have in the market and the future homes they need to construct.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

“A national secondary market for construction financing could allow lenders, like state housing finance agencies and banks, to provide the investment capital needed to get multifamily housing projects built and keys in families’ hands.” This could make the overall cost to entry — which is already low — more digestible.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Interestingly, employment for residential construction workers typically one of the first areas to experience declines before a recession has not yet seen its usual downturn. However, despite these challenges, we have not lost our labor pool of construction workers. They say housing leads the economy in and out of a recession.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This situation poses a risk to construction labor in 2025. Is 2025 the first year we start losing residential construction jobs? Earlier this year, mortgage rates were trending at 7.50%; during that time, we received one negative monthly residential construction labor report. This issue extends beyond just housing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Additionally, there are 268,000 homes currently under construction. Furthermore, there remains a record high of 108,000 homes that builders have not yet started constructing, all while mortgage rates remain above 7%. Rates below 6% could lead to increased housing construction and more permits being issued. Could things improve?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A lower Fed funds rate can assist with land purchases and apartment construction, but that process would take considerable time before we see any development. The key takeaway from today’s housing data is that there simply isn’t enough demand to justify additional construction — at least as far as the builders are concerned.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. That’s according to monthly data on new residential construction from the U.S. But housing completions rose 14.6% compared to September 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

These green building benefits associated with modular construction do not come with the dreaded green cost premium even though recent research shows that developers are willing to pay an average 10% more on construction costs if it allows their business to shift towards a more circular and sustainable business model.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Higher mortgage rates have increased recession risk by targeting the one sector that always falls before every recession: residential construction workers. Housing completion data is picking up and the faster the builders finish their historic backlog of homes, the sooner construction workers are unemployed. This is 10.1 percent (±10.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. Census Bureau, the median sale price of a new construction home in March 2024 was $430,700.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) have settled on new energy-efficiency standards for the construction of new single-family and multifamily homes. The “Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing” was published on Friday in the Federal Register, and will go into effect on May 28.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Bruce Harrell Last year, Harrell introduced a bold plan that would aim to double the citys zoning capacity, which City Hall said could lead to the construction of 80,000 additional homes by 2044. He is also looking to create 30 neighborhood centers that could allow for the construction of five-story apartment complexes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

” Residential construction workers are at risk of facing job losses for the first time in this recovery yet the Fed often takes a hawkish stance in its statements at key points, which tends to drive mortgage rates higher. It’s not falling.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Todays new construction report from the Census Bureau showed month-to-month growth in housing starts, but falling housing permits. However, employment for residential construction workers hasnt fallen at all, even with the decline in housing starts and permits. Why haven’t the homebuilders started doing layoffs?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We had no growth in residential construction work hiring earlier in the year when rates were higher. I recently raised this concern about housing construction and new home sales in an interview on CNBC. Today’s report shows that 258,000 homes are under construction, which amounts to 4.2 Then mortgage rates fell from 7.5%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. HW : We’re seeing an uptick in ground-up construction. Ground-up construction growth will be high to meet the population growth and meet the demand due to limited inventory.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The construction activity is likely to place the housing industry and its financing partners on a “collision course” with insurers, the outlet said. The construction figure in Florida far exceeds the next most prominent states. million built in total in that period, the First Street analysis found.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

“We need solutions that protect homeowners without pricing them out.” “We need solutions that protect homeowners without pricing them out.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

The report evaluates each state using weighted criteria tied to affordability and construction activity. Homebuilding was assessed using construction permit volumes relative to population and price differences between new and existing homes. Texas and Iowa each had A- scores. There is no single fix, Hale said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

This was driven by an increase in both single-family and multifamily construction. Importantly, new construction activity outpaced household formations for the first time since 2016. .” The company’s analysis found that in 2024, home completions grew to 1.6 million, the highest level in nearly two decades.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

Using growth indicators that measure upcoming construction and development, southern metros take eight spots in the top 10 list. in new construction, 7.2% The fires are also projected to slow construction growth as the area starts the rebuilding process. The top three metros are Lakeland, Florida. Lakeland measured 4.6%

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Real Estate News

JUNE 18, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock By the Numbers Home construction stalls as costs rise, demand softens Housing starts and permits fell in May in response to economic and market factors, while buyers continue to hold out despite easing mortgage rates. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Excluding the one-time events, the manufacturing data is getting softer and the residential construction sector is at risk with higher rates again, as the housing starts and permits data are at COVID-19 recession levels today. Temporary help services lost jobs. Employment declined in manufacturing due to strike activity.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Navigating the home buying process often begins with deciding between a new build or an existing homeand while new construction offers exciting possibilities, it also comes with unique challenges. New builds come with builder warranties and construction quality may vary due to labor shortages, and delays can occur.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

The company, redT Homes , states that it’s the Denver areas only residential real estate development company […] offering a full suite of services, ranging from land acquisition and entitlement to design, architecture, and construction along with real estate-focused marketing and sales.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

HUD encourages existing CoCs to use awarded funds for construction, acquisition or rehabilitation of additional PSH units with other funding sources, so that the amount of housing can be “maximized” to “meet the needs of individuals and families experiencing homelessness,” HUD said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2025

The 10-year yield is projected to be between 3.80% and 4.70% For mortgage rates to go lower, we need to focus on the labor market, which has been critical to every economic cycle in recent history, and particularly the labor market for residential construction and remodeling. Jobs week is next week and well see the final report for 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

This report shows a loss of manufacturing jobs, and although construction jobs increased, residential construction labor slightly declined. Residential construction labor We’ve noticed a slight month-to-month decline, which well monitor closely as we approach 2025. Federal government employment declined.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

As much of the nation continues to reckon with critical shortages to housing inventory that exacerbate affordability woes, housing advocates in California are seeking to exempt homebuilding projects in urban areas from being subjected to a key climate law that critics say has slowed construction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Tariffs threaten construction, could reverse rent declines The recent imposition of tariffs on building materials particularly steel and aluminum poses a risk to continued rent price relief, especially in markets with booming multifamily development.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2025

Wood Christies International Real Estate — said that new construction is helping to bring down expensive homeowners insurance rates that have led to buyer apprehension. The new construction is all up to code for flooding and everything else as opposed to older homes.” That compares to only 773 homes on the market in October 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

economy can withstand job losses in the government sector, reduced spending in the economy, and a housing market on the brink of losing residential construction projects. This leads us back to the private sector and residential construction jobs. In the coming months, we will see if the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. If you’re a loan officer, you should have a construction product that focuses on builders, developers and Realtors. And, its focusing on areas like construction, non-QM, the fix-and-flip and second lien production.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

Founded in 2022 as a spinoff from Airbnb , Samara has broader goals to revolutionize housing construction with a streamlined, cost-efficient model one that founder and CEO Mike McNamara believes could be a meaningful piece of a much larger national puzzle. Its ADUs are constructed entirely off-site in a factory environment.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

The construction sector showed little month-over-month change, adding just 8,000 jobs. Residential building construction added 3,500 jobs from November, while residential specialty trade contractors added just 500 positions.

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