Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

From Q2 to Q3 2023, the single-family , new-construction market share grew the most in large metro outlying counties from 9.5% Meanwhile, single-family construction growth rates in small metro core counties declined 18.6% Outlying counties posted the highest growth rate in the multifamily sector as well.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. New single-family home sales rose 23.8% million net loss , an improvement on the $90.8

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Century 21 Regency Realty agent Cheryl Piccinini has lived and traveled all over the world, but there is no place she would rather be than Alabama. “No No matter what you want, you can find it here,” the Enterprise, Alabama-based agent said. You can find the city, the country. We’ve got beaches. It is just an amazing place.” As of Feb.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

with a shortage of nearly 4 million homes, according to a new analysis from Realtor.com that was released Monday. 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.

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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. What’s going on? This is 11.2 percent (15.7 percent (13.0

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

With strong demand and limited options for existing homes, many homebuyers are turning to new construction. Mortgage applications for new construction home purchases increased 35.5% According to MBA estimates, new single-family home sales were running at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 677,000 units in July 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“Homebuilders are still benefiting from very low inventory of existing homes for sale, which has driven more buyers to consider new construction,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said. The seasonally‐adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of August was 436,000.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

The resulting housing market crash and the Great Recession led policymakers to overcorrect by tightening mortgage lending standards and limiting funds for new construction. The first is to shorten the lag time for creating new homes by anticipating demand over the next five years.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

This means more homes on the market and more options for home buyers, which is good news for a housing market that has been underbuilt for over a decade, Odeta Kushi , First Americans deputy chief economist, said in a statement. While economists are happy with the level of construction in 2024, they say there is still work to be done.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

New construction The reverse mortgage industry has, for a while, aimed to communicate the potential benefits of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) for Purchase program as a mechanism for securing a new home by using a reverse mortgage. Some feel like homes arent built like they used to be.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

We had a good few months of positive builder confidence data for the new home sector and positive purchase application data for existing home sales. Anyone who thinks we are on the verge of a housing construction boom is kidding themselves, with the policy still this restrictive. Let’s take a look at the report. percent (±19.9

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

But increased activity in residential construction , particularly in the South, is helping to alleviate affordability challenges in certain regions, according to ananalysis from First American Financial Corp. This construction boom is contributing to slower home-price appreciation and, in some cases, price declines. Census Bureau data.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Highlands Residential Mortgage announced that Daniel McCoy is joining the company as a regional construction loan manager for the Southeast. Daniel McCoy McCoy leads the construction-focused McCoy Mortgage Team , which has previously affiliated with companies like MVB Mortgage , Intercoastal Mortgage and Cardinal Financial.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

More than 560,000 new units are needed to meet all the demand by 2030, but only 191,000 will be added at current development rates, according to data service NIC MAP. Adding to the potential shortage in years ahead are stubbornly high mortgage rates and tariffs that could slow new construction. The projected aging of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. ” Nikol Solares Solares brings 20 years of experience in luxury development, new construction sales and marketing to her new role. .” Sheridan brings valuable experience to the Southeast region.

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Marco Santarelli

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Florida housing market is undeniably hot right now, making headlines with a record-breaking $285 million new construction home hitting the market. According to Realtor.com , this ocean-to-lake estate is poised to shatter records as the most expensive new construction single-family home in the country. Absolutely not!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Even if we had a massive increase in that number of new listings, that would not be enough to get affordability to get the kind of price declines that we need. What that tells me is that we really need more housing supply coming from new construction. He also pointed to low mortgage rates as another positive for homeowners.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Buyers want affordable new homes, yet new construction listings are still playing catch up with their high-priced counterparts. Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. Mortgage interest rates have steadily ramped up throughout 2024. Why is that important?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

loanDepot has signed a new joint venture agreement with Smith Douglas Homes , a top-50 homebuilder with a solid book of business in the Southern states. Smith Douglas Homes sold 2,297 homes in 2023. loanDepot has a variety of partnerships with homebuilders across the country.

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Purchase and sale agreement Mortgages New Construction Lending 305

Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

While state lawmakers are currently debating rent control legislation as one potential answer to the issue, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR) is advocating to increase housing construction instead, according to reporting by the Massachusetts’ State House News Service.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

With the heart of an athlete, Evans will bring strong work ethic to his new role. The company believes that population increases in these states have driven higher demand for new construction sales. The Kansas City Royals drafted Evans in the ninth round of the 1992 MLB draft.

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Lending New Construction Mortgages Construction 370

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“Rates have bounced higher since January, which likely is acting as a drag on new home sales in the meantime.” The uptick in the sales pace resulted in just 439,000 new homes remaining on the market at the end of the month, representing 7.9 Looking ahead, experts are optimistic about the spring selling season for new construction.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 21, 2025

New data from Realtor.com shows that rental prices continued to decline for the month of December, as the national median asking rent fell below $1,700 for the first time since April 2022. According to Realtor.com, this is a 1.1% decline year-over-year from December 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

As homebuyers continue to grapple with a lack of existing homes for sale, the market for new homes continues to see strong demand, and some areas of the country — including Sun Belt states — are producing new homes at a relatively rapid rate. was $335,170, compared to $414,990 for new construction homes.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

.” HUD and the Census Bureau are attributing this increase in production to strong demand for new construction. As housing inventory across the country continues to remain at historic lows, it comes as no surprise that many prospective homebuyers are turning to new construction. higher in the Northeast, 9.6%

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

A new generation of digitally native homebuyers and sellers are expecting online experiences , in every type of transaction, and more convenient and seamless ways to find, tour, purchase, and sell homes on their own terms. Innovation is not just on the construction side — it also can be adopted on the sales side.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2020

Last month, Buildfax estimated if single-family authorizations and existing housing activity continue to gain, new construction could stabilize in the Fall. This sentiment is supported by recent data from the National Association of Home Builders that stated residential construction employment rose by 24,000 in July to 2.8

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New Construction Construction Renovation Residential 516

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New construction continues to take more and more of our market,” Dopp said. “New New construction continues to take more and more of our market,” Dopp said. New construction used to be maybe 15-20% of the market, trending toward 40% of the market now. Boise, Idaho was the No.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. million people live in what Freddie Mac defines as “persistent poverty” counties.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This move follows Kiavi’s recent expansion announcement , in which it shared plans to offer its products in 13 new states. It also launched a new construction financing product for builders. As the 21st transaction made under the company’s LHOME Mortgage Trust, Kiavi’s total volume of notes offered sits at $5.8

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Land Investor Principal New Construction 259

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

housing market is back on track , stronger than ever, with a total estimated value of $52 trillion, according to a new analysis by Orphe Divounguy, a senior economist at Zillow Group. Fueling this increase is new construction, according to Divounguy, even though the 1.3% Over the past year, the value of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

We were up year over year in inventory , but we were at a 25 year low on new listings.” It is becoming more of a ‘I need to move so I am going to list my home,’ and it is pretty much always due to a life event and that is really the only way we are seeing inventory come on the market,” Kurt Schuler, a New Albany-based ERA agent, said.

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Marketing New Construction Construction As-is 468

Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

We specialize in non-agency loans, including bank statement loans, government lending, new construction and renovation products, and HELOCs , positioning us as a leader in the industry.” In a competitive market full of options, banks must rely on more than their rate sheet to compete for the business of third-party originators.

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Lending New Construction Renovation Banks 466

Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Additionally, mortgage applications for new homes surged in February as a lack of existing homes for sale continued to fuel the demand for new construction. But a slight uptick in mortgage rates held back the pace of new home sales in February, according to NAHB chief economist Robert Dietz.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The acquisition marks a milestone in Zonda’s path to streamlining the new home shopping process. Zonda will be able to integrate its new construction data and tech platform with the leading portal for U.S. new home listings. new home listings. The demand for new construction isn’t waning.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In Florida, new housing inventory has not grown significantly: the number of newly listed homes stands at 43,081, an 8.8% Florida is a top state for new residential construction, yet Florida homebuilders haven’t reported significant strides in new construction sales either. Home prices increased 5.4%

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