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What’s keeping homebuilders from large-scale layoffs?

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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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Deephaven’s Tom Davis: ‘Either you take market share, or someone takes yours’

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Tom Davis: When you’re working with a professional and you want expertise, you’re going to want to work with someone who is the expert in your market. Davis: Either you take market share or someone takes yours, right? For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year.

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Residential real estate activity picks up despite low inventory

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Demand from the buyer side has remained steady or increased, however, and new home builders have responded to inventory shortages by increasing speculative inventory production, according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book, released Wednesday. New York – The residential sales market has been strong across the District.

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Southern construction boom is aiding housing affordability

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As the 2025 spring homebuying season begins, the national housing market continues to struggle with supply shortages. 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.

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The Fed’s monetary policy is stifling new construction

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This also means that if construction workers can’t find AI data centers to work on , we will most likely lose some construction workers. When mortgage rates were over 6.75% earlier in the year, we had no growth in residential construction workers, and single-family permits were falling all year. recession isn’t far away.

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Opinion: The “profitless boom” in residential construction

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The residential construction industry is facing a crisis as builders manage the critical shortage of building materials and labor. Enter into contracts that are malleable to market prices. The post Opinion: The “profitless boom” in residential construction appeared first on HousingWire.

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Kiavi expands investment lending options to 13 more states

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Residential real estate capital provider Kiavi announced Monday that it is expanding into 13 additional states, broadening the company’s reach to 45 states and Washington, D.C. The market expansion comes on the heels of a heavy volume year for the San Francisco-headquartered lender.

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