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Construction worker shortage has reached “crisis” levels

Housing Wire

To keep pace with current construction demand, and account for attrition, 740,000 new construction workers are needed each year for the next three years , a report by the Home Builders Institute contends. million new hires for construction. The construction worker shortage has reached crisis level.

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New Home Construction Expectations for 2022

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Of course, the construction industry has been facing some pressing challenges, including hitches in global and national supply chains. This makes new home construction a continued challenge, even as demand exists to accelerate new housing. between 2012 and 2021. Things may be taking a turn for the better in 2022, though.

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Homebuilders are primed for an even better 2024

Housing Wire

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. million new single-family construction units in 2024.

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The housing market is 6.5 million units short: Realtor.com

Housing Wire

million households were formed , marking the highest level of yearly household formations in the past decade, and bringing the total number of household formations from 2012 to 2022 to 15.6 This resulted in the gap between single family home construction and household formation growing to 6.5 In 2022, 2.06 million households.

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Pretium Partners to acquire 4,000 D.R. Horton rental homes in $1.5B deal

Housing Wire

Real estate investment management firm Pretium Partners is acquiring thousands of homes from home construction company D.R. Founded in 2012, the Pretium platform capitalizes on investment and lending opportunities and has more than $50 billion of assets with real estate investments across 30 markets in the U.S, Horton Inc.

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Institutional buyers pumped the brakes on purchase activity in 2023

Housing Wire

The analysis is limited to resale properties and does not include new construction, which means that build-to-rent activity is excluded. year over year to 251,462, the lowest fourth-quarter level since 2012, Redfin reported. Purchase activity peaked in July, driven by a portfolio acquisition completed by Invitation Homes.

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Rural America is losing affordable housing at a crisis pace

Housing Wire

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. I think in a healthy housing market, you have to have both new construction and preservation efforts,” Maxwell said. “We

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