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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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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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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.

Tenants 467
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Housing starts slide, but there are reasons for optimism

Housing Wire

As mortgage rates rose to nearly 7% and builder sentiment dipped to painfully low levels in September, housing starts also declined, dropping 8.1% Department of Housing and Urban Development. On a year over year basis, September’s annual housing start rate was down 7.7%. Census Bureau and the U.S. from August and 15.7%

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Mortgage buy downs on the rise as builders try to entice more buyers

Housing Wire

Homebuilder confidence continued to drop in November, hitting its lowest level since June 2012, with the exception of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday.

Buyers 543
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Homebuilders are at max capacity. And the housing shortage keeps widening

Housing Wire

Aerial drone inspection of Lennar’s Westview housing development Miami, Florida. Everywhere you look there seems to be bad news for the existing-home market — interest rates remain north of 7% and the median home price nears record levels at more than $410,000 as of June. Taken by Felix Mizioznikov.

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New home sales continued to yo-yo in October

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. The increase in new-home prices reflects a shift in the mix of homes being sold, with fewer homes sold at lower prices points, thus the median price escalated, as well as higher construction costs are being passed on to the consumer,” Kushi said.