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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

New construction inventory has grown in recent months. Homebuilders have ramped up incentives — like mortgage rate buydowns and cash rebates — to boost sales, and new-home sales rose 6.3% year over year in September.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

It also closed five RTL securitizations for nearly $2 billion and expanded its product suite by launching a new construction financing product. The company said that in 2024, it increased its active customer base to more than 5,500 (up 30% from 2023).

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

A study released Thursday by fintech and personal finance website SmartAsset delved into Zillow data on new home sales. A key conclusion is that while new construction creates additional supply for first-time and move-up buyers alike, it comes with an additional expense. In March the average home sale price in the U.S.

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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. This USDA program, however, is in serious trouble. The LIHTC program, administered through the U.S.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2024

One key data line that is flagging a path to recession is the loss of residential construction workers. A while back, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler and I discussed the risk of recession due to a lack of construction labor. Let’s look at today’s residential construction report and see where we are. From the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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 The backlog of new construction homes continues to emerge into the market just in time for the spring shopping season,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow ’s senior economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Biden’s new plan would cap annual rent hikes at 5% for two years for landlords who manage 50 or more rental units, which the administration said would cover 20 million units, or roughly half of all rental units in the country. Exemptions would be provided to new construction and units with “substantial” renovation and rehabilitation.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The only viable solution to these problems, as other municipal leaders and housing industry experts have previously suggested, is the construction of more homes. The plan also addresses environmental impact concerns of new construction, Rubio said, by paying attention to the floodplain of Portland’s urban center.

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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. What does this mean for the future?

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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. from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

“Attractive homes are moving fast, so those looking to buy this spring should get their finances in order now, including getting pre-approved for a home loan. The increase in new listings this spring, due both to new construction and to more homeowners choosing to sell, will give buyers more options and help to ease price growth.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. The business appears durable, too. million and 7.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It also has a niche in construction and manufactured home loan programs.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It also launched a new construction financing product for builders. The company reportedly originated $6.5 billion in loan volume last year, up 46% from 2023. Kiavi also said it boosted its active customer base to more than 5,500, up 30% from 2023. Kiavi has funded more than $23 billion in loans since its inception.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

This transition is said to build on other recent efforts by FHLBank Chicago to expand the availability of mortgage financing. VantageScore claims that the 4.0 system scores 33 million more people than more traditional credit scoring models, including 2.4 that use trended credit bureau data.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

According to Alicia Huey, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the lack of existing inventory is the reason why more homebuyers turn to new construction. Meanwhile, the median sales price for a new house in September was $418,800, down 3.3% from $430,300 in August.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

. “The large inventory of new homes is suppressing building at this point, but with mortgage rates dropping and likely to fall more, we should see a pick up in construction later this year,” Robert Frick, a corporate economist at Navy Federal Credit Union , said in a statement. Single-family permits also declined, falling 0.1%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

New home builders have benefited from the unseasonably modest sales of existing homes as the resale market has slowed. Cleveland – Demand for residential construction and real estate has stabilized in this District, and contacts attribute this stabilization to the arrival of spring and flattening interest rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

With existing inventory down, Schuler said new construction has taken on a larger role in his market. New construction has typically averaged around 10% of active listing inventory and in our area right now, new construction has ranged anywhere between 30% to 40% of inventory,” Schuler said. 23, 2024.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

Construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) is taking off, but is it bringing down housing costs? A new report from John Burns Real Estate Consulting casts doubt on it, citing uneven geographic distribution of deregulations and the high cost of construction. As a result, the most impactful ADUs are in new construction.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Then, we have all the traditional financing options, including jumbo.” ” Amid the challenging landscape, Guerin, from New Jersey-based AFR, said the company doubled its efforts to do more renovation loans. 1 product to help first-time homebuyers get their houses. But it is also getting creative in a down market. .”

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

“The market for new homes is booming because the number of existing homes coming on the market has slowed to a two-decade low. It’s a unique housing market, unparalleled in recent years, for the active inventory to be so heavily skewed towards new construction. from a month prior, but down 3.6% compared to June 2022. “The

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. It’s fair to say that 2022 has been a depressing year for homebuilders.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On the bright side, permits for future construction recorded a 6.9% This annual increase in new starts was driven entirely by new construction activity in the South region, she noted. Single-family construction also slowed in the Midwest region in August, down 15.1% Census Bureau. Permits were 2.7%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 4% between July and August, the strongest pace of sales in three months. 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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Builders are shifting their focus to smaller, taller, and off-site homes as a response to high interest rates, financing costs and softer home buying demand, Zillow economist Orphe Divounguy said in a recent blog post. in 2022 from 2021 while construction on homes with three bedrooms or more fell by 13.1% over that same span.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

home construction at the onset of the pandemic. We have a fair amount of new-construction homes for sale, and thank goodness we do,” Nicole Dege, a Redfin Premier agent in Orlando, said in the report. Newly built homes have taken up an outsized portion of inventory since the pandemic for two main reasons, according to Redfin.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

homebuilding industry to Fannie Mae’s accomplished and diverse board, which guides the company’s efforts to responsibly expand access to mortgage credit and finance quality, affordable rental housing ,” the company said in a statement. Stowell brings nearly 40 years of experience in the U.S. Board chair Michael J. and HomeAid America.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. For this to work, we would need to prevent NIMBY lawsuits from delaying construction projects.

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Realtor.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Getty Images While buying a newly built home may not be the first thought to come to mind for homebuyers, purchasing new construction is a common option that comes with distinct benefits in today’s market. New construction can refer to single-family homes, condos , or apartments, and are available across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, the share of new construction for sale in the third quarter was the highest ever recorded. single-family homes for sale in the third quarter were new construction, up from 28.9% The median price for a new home kept inching down There was a bright side for consumers. Nationwide, 30.6%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Here’s how Dannielle Hale, chief economist for Realtor.com, put it in her recent 2021 forecast: “The housing market in 2021 will be much more hospitable for buyers as an increased number of existing sellers and ramp-up in new construction restore some bargaining power for buyers, especially in the second half of the year.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

New construction starts and permits showed surprising strength in October while existing-home sales slumped to their worst reading since 2010. This dynamic is reflected in the latest data showing that existing home sales have fallen to a thirteen-year low.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We do not see new construction returning in a meaningful way any time soon. Kurt Carlton, President of New Western. “We do not see new construction returning in a meaningful way any time soon. Our macro-outlook is that demand for housing will remain out of balance with supply for the mid to long term.

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Realtor.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Compare that with a preexisting home’s median price of $396,300 , and it’s clear that buying brand-new might set you back tens of thousands of dollars extra. But homebuyers should also know that they can lower the costs of new construction right when they make the purchase through some smart negotiation tactics.

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