Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes improved for a fourth consecutive month in August with a two-point gain to 37 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released today.
Strengthening house prices in metros across the country contributed to slightly lower housing affordability in the second quarter, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI), released today.
Builder confidence in the 55+ housing market for single-family homes showed improvement in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the same period a year ago, according to the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) latest 55+ Housing Market Index (HMI) released today.
A total of 80 metropolitan statistical areas across 32 states and the District of Columbia were listed as improving housing markets on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) for August, released today.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) 50+ Housing Council is now accepting applications for the 2013 Best of 50+ Housing Awards, which honor excellence in building, design, marketing and lifestyle of housing for boomers and beyond.
The second quarter results of the Remodeling Market Index (RMI) slipped under pressure from a softening labor market, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), dropping two points to 45.
Sales of newly built, single-family homes slowed 8.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 350,000 units in June following an upwardly revised, strong pace in the previous month, according to figures released today by HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Keeping up with the rapidly changing field of green building can be daunting. BuilderBooks, the publishing arm of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently released a new resource, Green Building Strategies: From Plan to Profit to help builders and industry professionals understand and apply cutting-edge building science to construct high performance homes, while reducing the impact on the environment.
More than 650 area residents representing a wide range of interests gathered at a Rally for Homeownership today in Detroit to highlight homeownership's vital importance to families and to the economy.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) commends the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA) for approving a resolution recently that underscores the importance of homeownership, and calls on Washington policymakers to take action to shore up the nation's housing markets to achieve a long-lasting economic recovery.
