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Elevated borrowing costs remain the top worry for homebuilders

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Department of Housing and Urban Development. single-family homes for sale were new construction, similar to the percentage from a year earlier and good for the highest level of any fourth quarter on record. In 2011, only 13% of homebuilders worried about the cost of labor, versus 87% in 2019. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Sun Belt cities lead the way for new home sales

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A key conclusion is that while new construction creates additional supply for first-time and move-up buyers alike, it comes with an additional expense. While many metro areas currently offer an advantage where you can purchase a new construction home for a similar price or even less than the average area home, there is still a 23.8%

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Phoenix building restrictions squeeze construction firms and agents

Housing Wire

In certain parts of the Phoenix AMA that do not have a designated water provider, builders and developers need a certificate of AWS to obtain a building permit. Kamps added that he anticipates the prices of the 80,000 lots that already have AWS will also increase if developers chose to sell them, since there currently is a finite supply.

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Homebuilders are taking advantage of low existing inventory

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). While the national inventory of single-family homes is down more than 50% compared to the level in early May 2019, the inventory of new homes for sale at the end of April (433,000 homes) is up 30% compared to the end of April 2019.

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Homebuilders are feeling pretty good right now

Housing Wire

The NAHB/HMI report is based on a monthly survey of NAHB members, in which homebuilders are asked to rate both current market conditions for the sale of new homes and expected conditions for the next six months, as well as traffic of prospective buyers of new homes. That share from 2000-2019 was a 12.7%

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Low inventory creates challenging conditions in North Carolina’s housing market

Housing Wire

While this is up from a record low of 7,336 listings set in late April 2022, it is still well below the 29,951 listings in early May 2019, about a year prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have so much new construction happening. It didn’t go anywhere last year, but we are going to continue to try,” Bushnell said. “We

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Affordable housing inventory is limited due to foreclosure prevention efforts

Housing Wire

That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction. In 2019 the number was 200,000. When including the approximately 900,000 single family homes constructed by new homebuilders during the year, according to data from the Census and U.S.

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