Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

In certain parts of the Phoenix AMA that do not have a designated water provider, builders and developers need a certificate of AWS to obtain a building permit. million residents. Arizona sees the ban as a precautionary measure to curb the effects of climate change , as it will limit the number of new residential properties built in the area.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

A private planning firm in California is launching a new tool to help local governments there prepare for a pending law designed to spur more construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Digital tools like the ADU Plans Gallery reduce the time and cost of building ADUs and accelerate housing construction.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2020

Buyer-generated content, including consumer reviews of builders, is now available on Zillow and will be viewable on builder profiles, community pages and paid new construction listings. In Zillows Consumer Housing Trends Report, it was revealed that 76% of new construction buyers say reputation is very or extremely important in a builder.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

It is shipped from the Boxabl manufacturing facility in Las Vegas and is “designed to unfold into a fully functional dwelling unit in just a few hours,” reducing construction costs and minimizing environmental impacts, according to a company news release.

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Keeping Current Matters

DECEMBER 8, 2021

First, let’s look at the benefits of purchasing a newly constructed home. Buying a new construction vs. existing home typically means you’ll have fewer repairs to do. With decades of homes to choose from, you’ll have a broader range of floorplans and designs available. New Construction May Be an Option.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) visited the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to tout the possibilities that 3D printing technology could bring to the construction of affordable housing in the U.S. A key goal for the project includes the deployment of local and sustainable resources for construction materials.

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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 5, 2024

Department of the Treasury on Tuesday announced a series of new initiatives designed to increase the supply of affordable housing across the country. The FFB risk-sharing initiative will assist in the construction of “tens of thousands of additional affordable homes” over the next decade, he wrote.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

And for those who still want to build a home from scratch, rising construction costs , limited lot sizes, and excessive red tape can make the process seem insurmountable. Considering how much construction technology, materials, and techniques have evolved, building a new home should be far simpler than it is. Opportunities to innovate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By extension, Zonda also acquired NewHomeSource.com , one of the largest listings platforms for newly constructed homes, and Envision , a new home design platform. Zonda will be able to integrate its new construction data and tech platform with the leading portal for U.S. The demand for new construction isn’t waning.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

DDAs are areas with high construction , land and utility costs when compared to an area’s median gross income (AMGI). The parameters were published in the Federal Register on Monday.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Heading into 2024, there are continuing and emerging financing options, grant programs and legislation all designed to help homeowners and builders create much-needed infill housing. Draw structures for loans supporting new construction of ADUs, especially for prefab, are still “clunky.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

The company says it will use the funding to scale its operations, accelerate its research and development and expand construction into new markets. Through this building process, Veev says it can build homes up to four times faster than standard construction industry standards, which in turn can bring down costs significantly.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For this quarterly edition of the survey, the Fannie Mae Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group also surveyed panelists on potential zoning reforms being debated at the state and local levels , which are designed to increase the production of homes and rental units. million homes,” he said. “We’ve

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program designed to allow for the construction of rental housing units is getting a new participant: the Cherokee Nation. At least one member of the renter’s household must be employed as a skilled worker at the time of initial leasing of the property and must sign the lease.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

The Section 502 direct loan program, designed to assist low- and very-low-income applicants to obtain housing in eligible rural areas, provides payment assistance to “increase an applicant’s repayment ability” via a type of subsidy that can temporarily reduce the cost of a mortgage payment.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

HUD also published guides designed to assist with mobility improvements and decarbonization of existing transportation systems. The department said it aims to alert communities about important elements of post-disaster resilience that research has shown are often overlooked or less understood in the immediate wake of a disaster.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The grant funds will be primarily deployed to bolster infrastructure, construction or renovation of community buildings, housing rehabilitation, land acquisition and economic development for the American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday announced the disbursement of $72.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Renovation Sells platform focuses on design and construction, while the loans come from HouseAmp. For its part, Renovation Sells provides a cost estimate within 48 hours of touring a seller’s home, then provides design services and local contractors to complete the work.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

In the Seattle area, there was a 250% ADU construction increase in 2022 compared to 2019. In Seattle, a report designed for City Council outlines that during 2022, permitted ADU construction increased to 988 total units — a sharp rise from the 280 ADU construction permits issued in 2019.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

The California State Senate passed a bill this week that would permit the construction of affordable housing units on land owned by faith-based institutions and nonprofit colleges, even if local zoning ordinances and laws would normally prevent construction. The bill, introduced last December by Sen. Wiener told the Davis Vanguard.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2021

Now, in 2021, the large, female-only company designed and constructed a home that was showcased in the 2021 Utah Valley Parade of Homes — and sold to benefit several good causes. Utah Professional Women in Building group. In 2018, Kristin Smith was tasked with starting the first-ever Utah Professional Women in Building group.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The thoughtful design and selection of community amenities contribute to the appeal for buyers.” Although Zonda data shows that pressure on lot supply eased last year, the John Burns report indicates that MPCs will become even more desirable as construction activity ramps up.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The physical separation can be achieved through architectural design solutions for new construction or remodeling and creative space-planning ideas for previously established home layouts. Both can unravel the most sustainably designed and constructed healthy home-work environment.

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Propmodo

JUNE 20, 2024

The power needs are also changing how new data center developments are designed. All these factors are leading to innovations in data center design and construction. On the construction side, supply chain issues are still causing long equipment lead times. Developers have turned to prefabrication construction methods.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Lenders can also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans. Unlike off-the-shelf POS solutions, Blueprint Builder allows lenders to customize technology that is designed to help improve operations, Maxwell noted.

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Inman

JANUARY 13, 2023

Era Ventures led the funding round for New York-based Welcome Homes, an online home construction platform that elevates the design and buy process of new property construction.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The company said it believes urban development complexities are pushing the construction of new housing further out of urban centers, contributing to an imbalance between supply and demand and, by extension, affordability challenges. Not only is the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As localities across the country wrestle with housing shortages, one Massachusetts town will make its case to a panel of judges next week to argue against a plan that requires the construction of more multifamily units, according to reporting by USA Today and state records reviewed by HousingWire. According to 2020 data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

For Universal Studios employees, the owners of the park are seeking to construct a 1,000-unit mixed-use development slated to open in 2026 that would promise a short commute to the Universal Orlando Resort, which is also aiming to open a full-scale third theme park called “Epic Universe” next year.

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Eye on Housing

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Despite weakness for single-family construction in 2023, townhouse construction recorded the best quarter for starts in more than 17 years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Reports on housing data are headline-driven, and headlines are designed to cause folks to overreact in both positive and negative ways. However, construction should continue at a slow and steady pace. months and above, builders tend to halt construction. When monthly supply is 4.4 When monthly supply gets to 6.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. Ideally, an engineer designs a model of what they want on software, from an air duct to a prosthetic limb, and it is precisely printed out.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Eligible debts include construction loans, personal loans, credit cards, auto loans and student loans. Customers must enter basic information — including their name, date of birth, address and loan purpose — to access the feature and map out the details of a new loan.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

This move is designed to “create an additional economic incentive to protect Ginnie Mae and taxpayers against a decline in collateral value,” Ginnie Mae explained when announcing the proposed term sheet. For instance, I believe strongly that this now allows lenders to actually focus on the origination side.

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Eye on Housing

MAY 19, 2022

According to NAHB analysis of the most recent Census data of Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design, during the first quarter of 2022 single-family attached starts totaled 36,000, which is 16% higher than the first quarter of 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

In particular, HUD Form 92900–C is designed to “collect loan-level data that is needed for insuring purposes and not found on Fannie Mae form 1003,” according to the original announcement. HUD also plans to replace its use of some internal forms, including one used in conjunction with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) loans.

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