Industry News

Why $200K to $300K is the New Normal for Home Builders, Even in the West — Since new home prices peaked in 2007, new single-family sales of over $500K have been more than cut in half,

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Thomas P. McDonough, KC ArchitectureBringing focus and personality to KC architecture.

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Dollars & Homes with Bruce Brown — With retail sales and consumer confidence rising, home prices are expected to follow

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Made in America. Buying domestically made products can create thousands of jobs and help save our industry! ABC News' "Made in America" installment for home building.

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Housing Market Picks Up Speed for 2012 It's only January, but already the latest real estate news indicate that the housing market is looking up.

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Please Mr. President, enough with the one-off responses, it's time for a National Housing Policy.

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Builder Confidence Index At 54 Month High Home builder confidence rose in January for the fourth consecutive month as builders saw more buyer traffic and anticipated higher sales.

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Voters Place High Value on Homeownership, Oppose Policies That Make It More Difficult to Own a Home By an overwhelming margin, American voters strongly value homeownership and would oppose efforts to weaken or eliminate the mortgage interest deduction or diminish a federal role to help qualified home buyers obtain affordable 30-year mortgages,

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List of Improving Housing Markets Nearly Doubles in January The number of housing markets showing measurable improvement nearly doubled in January with the addition of 40 new metros to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI),

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Tax Cut Extension Now Officially Raising Mortgage Rates As part of the temporary resolution to the recent battle over the Tax Cut Extention that took place in the last weeks of December, Congress decided that mortgage borrowers should foot part of the bill.

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Two Banks' Housing Market Forecasts Overheard recently: "I love Christmas lights - they remind me of some co-workers. They all hang together, half of them don't work, and the ones that do aren't that bright." But there lots of very bright people in the mortgage business, and some wonder about the general common sense level of those in Washington.

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Report: Homebuyers are IN, Sellers are OUT The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has demonstrated again that the public's perception of the real estate market depends on which side of the closing table they plan to sit.

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Builder Confidence Rises for the Third Consecutive Month Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes edged up two points from a downwardly revised number to 21 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for December, released today...

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