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How lenders can continue to serve borrowers despite housing affordability challenges

Housing Wire

Housing inventory remains persistently low, home prices are at all-time highs and affordability is becoming out of reach for more people with every passing day. Bill Dallas: As construction and labor costs have climbed, so, too, have home prices. HousingWire: What are the current challenges when it comes to affordable housing?

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials.

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IN DIRE NEED OF GENERATIONAL RESPONSE TO HOUSING SHORTFALL

Will Springer Realtor

And, Seattle’s attempt to force building developers to incorporate more affordable homes within their new residential endeavors yielded only 21 units in 2020 out of a swell of 224 construction projects. Developers opted to pay fees to the city totaling $68M instead, funds that help construct affordable homes in other parts of the city.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A Another 1350 are under construction with delivery in the next two years, including the high-end Avenue Bellevue. BY THE NUMBERS. >> The average size of a newly constructed single-family home is now 2524 sq. million sq. That’s up from 2333 sq. a month ago.

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Millennials Expected To Maintain Real Estate Buying Intensity

Will Springer Realtor

Now, home builders would need to construct as many as 1.2 This was the fastest pace for combined single-family and multi-family construction since June 2006. >> The lack of inventory to keep real estate moving is confirmed with the latest data on U.S. We are on the right track. million units. existing home sales.

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Appraisals – Check the Water Source!

Appraisal Today

Excerpts: the 14,500-square-foot modern home where almost every room offers an excellent view. The way that we did that was through cantilevers and using structural engineers and steel to help us to construct the home that we absolutely wanted.”. Two days ago the Fed raised rates by 0.75%. Lower inflation? Real estate market? ==.