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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RIS Media

OCTOBER 18, 2024

According to the bureau’s September Monthly New Residential Construction report,… The post Positive Signs: Single-Family New Construction, Permits Rise in September appeared first on RISMedia. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development bears that sentiment out.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The residential construction industry is facing a crisis as builders manage the critical shortage of building materials and labor. The post Opinion: The “profitless boom” in residential construction appeared first on HousingWire.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As a whole, the construction sector is still 85,000 jobs below its February 2020 level. On a brighter note, residential construction added 3,600 jobs and the number of residential specialty trade contractor jobs rose by 800. Residential building construction employment is up 5.3% below,” Kushi said.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Unlock new opportunities in a low inventory market when you dig into the new construction segment of the residential market.

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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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

New construction rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,560,000, according to the U.S. Single-family building activity drove November residential construction activity. “The Housing starts rose in November, significantly beating expectations. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S.

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Mortgages Construction New Construction Residential 459

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

San Francisco-based private lender Kiavi announced on Thursday that it has secured $300 million in capital after another securitization of its residential transition loans (RTLs). It also launched a new construction financing product for builders. billion since 2019. The company reportedly originated $6.5

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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. homebuying process.

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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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. some luxury residential markets that saw an influx of Chinese buyers could be particularly vulnerable. This could make raising capital for new construction projects harder, and more expensive, everywhere.

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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% month over month.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

HUD also seeks to transition away from the discontinued Fannie Mae Form 1009, the residential loan application for reverse mortgages, to Form 1003, the Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA). HUD also plans to replace its use of some internal forms, including one used in conjunction with U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Strong new home sales have gotten the new construction industry back on track to deliver much-needed inventory for this undersupplied market. They now supply about 30% of the residential sales market. This has brought a resurgence to the new construction industry with sales rising and home builder confidence climbing.’

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Inman

JULY 17, 2024

High mortgage rates, slowing homebuyer activity and weakening homebuilder sentiments created the perfect storm in June, keeping new residential construction from posting annual gains.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

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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Construction New Construction Equity Residential 435

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

residential mortgage market and housing-related assets. In AFR, it’s adding the New Jersey-based, full-service independent mortgage bank that has direct, wholesale and correspondent lending divisions. Since its foundation in 1997, Proprietary Capital has developed a platform to invest in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2023

“While this is fueling cautious optimism among builders, they continue to face ongoing challenges to meet a growing demand for new construction. In March, 33% of homes listed for sale were new homes in various stages of construction. That share from 2000-2019 was a 12.7%

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New Construction Construction Sales Staging 459

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He began his presentation during the “Residential Economic Issues and Trends Forum” by analyzing the data points that impacted 2023 real estate conditions before diving into forecasts for next year. In 2023, new-home sales are up 5% year to date, Yun said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Shelter inflation has been coming down slowly since the summer, as new residential construction activity ramped up in 2023,” said Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist for Bright MLS. Even though shelter prices dropped to 0.3% the prior month, they’ve increased 6.7%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

New home sales increased in December — a sign that new residential sales have continued to rebound in recent months. Last month, new home sales increased by 2.3% In addition, the median sales price of new houses that were sold in December dropped to $442,100, and the average sales price dipped to $528,400.

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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.

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Construction New Construction MLS Residential 481

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For career switchers looking for a new path that doesn’t necessarily require a college degree, they could do worse than the building trades. million new hires for construction. Since the last housing bubble burst, when more than a million residential construction workers lost their jobs , a shortage has developed.

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Construction Renovation New Construction Development 529

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She has more than 25 years of real estate industry experience, and she specializes in lake properties and new construction. She is a certified home stager with experience in both residential and commercial real estate. Walsh cited Coldwell Banker Realty’s marketing programs as one of the reasons for her return.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The analysis is limited to resale properties and does not include new construction, which means that build-to-rent activity is excluded. Investors of all sizes purchased 46,419 residential properties in fourth-quarter 2023, according to Redfin data. That amounted to $32.3 billion worth of property, or 10.5% Meanwhile, total U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With broad expertise across the residential spectrum, including single-family homes, mixed-use communities, and projects meeting local governments’ affordability requirements, we will benefit from Scott’s deep understanding of the homebuilding process as lack of supply and new construction issues persist in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But people need homes,” said Kenny Deen, senior account executive at the independent mortgage banker and residential home lender Paramount Residential Mortgage Group. ” Amid the challenging landscape, Guerin, from New Jersey-based AFR, said the company doubled its efforts to do more renovation loans.

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Mortgages VA loan Finance Renovation 493

Keeping Current Matters

APRIL 27, 2021

” Yun’s insight was supported the next day when the Census Bureau released its Monthly New Residential Sales Report. It shows that newly constructed home sales are up 20.7% The residential real estate market will benefit from both as we move forward. over the previous month. Buyer demand remains strong.

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Marketing New Construction Construction Residential 307

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.

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Sales New Construction Marketing Construction 370

Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2023

New construction starts and completions were both strong in May, which is welcome news. However, most projects underway in the month were 5+ multi-family units, as opposed to single-family residential units,” Walden said. Single family residential units account for just 40% of the total number of projects underway.

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Principal Residential New Construction Land 418

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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Mortgages Loan Officer Pre-approval Fixed-rate mortgage 448

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.

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Construction New Construction Lending Sales 476

Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

For example, inclusionary zoning policies require developers to include a certain percentage of affordable units in new residential developments. One notable approach is adaptive reuse, which involves repurposing existing buildings for new uses.

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Development Renovation New Construction Land 459

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The new construction industry was not blind to the impacts this will have on housing demand. Builders are starting on construction on fewer single-family houses, but they’ve been breaking ground on more apartments and condominiums. Month over month, both sectors were down, with single family dropping 3.2%

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Keeping Current Matters

MARCH 17, 2021

Unemployment was under 4% , forecasters were giddy with their projections for the economy, and the residential housing market had the strongest January and February activity in over a decade. Remarkably, the residential real estate market (including existing homes and new construction) has flourished over the last twelve months.

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