Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2025

Although recent improvements in construction demonstrate progress, they also underscore the pressing need for decisive legislative action. Household formations were surpassed by new construction activity for the first time since 2016. This was primarily due to a slowdown in multi-family construction. However, there is still a 3.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This situation poses a risk to construction labor in 2025. Is 2025 the first year we start losing residential construction jobs? Earlier this year, mortgage rates were trending at 7.50%; during that time, we received one negative monthly residential construction labor report. This issue extends beyond just housing.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

“A national secondary market for construction financing could allow lenders, like state housing finance agencies and banks, to provide the investment capital needed to get multifamily housing projects built and keys in families’ hands.” This could make the overall cost to entry — which is already low — more digestible.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Additionally, there are 268,000 homes currently under construction. Furthermore, there remains a record high of 108,000 homes that builders have not yet started constructing, all while mortgage rates remain above 7%. Rates below 6% could lead to increased housing construction and more permits being issued. Could things improve?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Interestingly, employment for residential construction workers typically one of the first areas to experience declines before a recession has not yet seen its usual downturn. However, despite these challenges, we have not lost our labor pool of construction workers. They say housing leads the economy in and out of a recession.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. That’s according to monthly data on new residential construction from the U.S. But housing completions rose 14.6% compared to September 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Despite the current stability, Redfin economists warn that looming tariffs on imported building materials may trigger a reversal in rent trends by constraining new apartment construction activity and increasing economic uncertainty. Will rising costs derail new construction? a key resource for apartment construction comes from Canada.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A lower Fed funds rate can assist with land purchases and apartment construction, but that process would take considerable time before we see any development. The key takeaway from today’s housing data is that there simply isn’t enough demand to justify additional construction — at least as far as the builders are concerned.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. Census Bureau, the median sale price of a new construction home in March 2024 was $430,700.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to a new Redfin research, in Q3 of this year, an estimated 28% of single-family homes for sale nationwide were newly constructed, the lowest percentage in three years. Census reports that in September 2024, sales of newly constructed single-family houses increased 6.3% Overall construction has slowed. a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

“We need solutions that protect homeowners without pricing them out.” “We need solutions that protect homeowners without pricing them out.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Higher mortgage rates have increased recession risk by targeting the one sector that always falls before every recession: residential construction workers. Housing completion data is picking up and the faster the builders finish their historic backlog of homes, the sooner construction workers are unemployed. This is 10.1 percent (±10.6

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

As much of the nation continues to reckon with critical shortages to housing inventory that exacerbate affordability woes, housing advocates in California are seeking to exempt homebuilding projects in urban areas from being subjected to a key climate law that critics say has slowed construction.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Todays new construction report from the Census Bureau showed month-to-month growth in housing starts, but falling housing permits. However, employment for residential construction workers hasnt fallen at all, even with the decline in housing starts and permits. Why haven’t the homebuilders started doing layoffs?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Bruce Harrell Last year, Harrell introduced a bold plan that would aim to double the citys zoning capacity, which City Hall said could lead to the construction of 80,000 additional homes by 2044. He is also looking to create 30 neighborhood centers that could allow for the construction of five-story apartment complexes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

Using growth indicators that measure upcoming construction and development, southern metros take eight spots in the top 10 list. in new construction, 7.2% The fires are also projected to slow construction growth as the area starts the rebuilding process. The top three metros are Lakeland, Florida. Lakeland measured 4.6%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Navigating the home buying process often begins with deciding between a new build or an existing homeand while new construction offers exciting possibilities, it also comes with unique challenges. New builds come with builder warranties and construction quality may vary due to labor shortages, and delays can occur.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. HW : We’re seeing an uptick in ground-up construction. Ground-up construction growth will be high to meet the population growth and meet the demand due to limited inventory.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We had no growth in residential construction work hiring earlier in the year when rates were higher. I recently raised this concern about housing construction and new home sales in an interview on CNBC. Today’s report shows that 258,000 homes are under construction, which amounts to 4.2 Then mortgage rates fell from 7.5%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The construction activity is likely to place the housing industry and its financing partners on a “collision course” with insurers, the outlet said. The construction figure in Florida far exceeds the next most prominent states. million built in total in that period, the First Street analysis found.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

” Residential construction workers are at risk of facing job losses for the first time in this recovery yet the Fed often takes a hawkish stance in its statements at key points, which tends to drive mortgage rates higher. It’s not falling.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

This was driven by an increase in both single-family and multifamily construction. Importantly, new construction activity outpaced household formations for the first time since 2016. .” The company’s analysis found that in 2024, home completions grew to 1.6 million, the highest level in nearly two decades.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

The construction sector showed little month-over-month change, adding just 8,000 jobs. Residential building construction added 3,500 jobs from November, while residential specialty trade contractors added just 500 positions.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Renters in areas where construction has boomed are in a sweet spot right now. As construction starts to slow, rents will eventually tick back up, but 2025 is shaping up as a renters market with potential for the affordability gap between buying and renting to widen. at 9.4%; and Providence, Rhode Island at 9.3%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. If you’re a loan officer, you should have a construction product that focuses on builders, developers and Realtors. And, its focusing on areas like construction, non-QM, the fix-and-flip and second lien production.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

New-home construction in the U.S. StorageCafe describes this discrepancy as the “missing middle,” and analysts blame zoning laws and rising construction costs. has focused on single-family and multifamily inventory growth to boost supply and affordability. One Texas city has something to say about that.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

economy can withstand job losses in the government sector, reduced spending in the economy, and a housing market on the brink of losing residential construction projects. This leads us back to the private sector and residential construction jobs. In the coming months, we will see if the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 15, 2025

Homes like condos, townhouses and new construction single family homes in neighborhoods with ample amenities are more likely to have an HOA fee. of newly constructed homes listed on Realtor.com had a monthly homeowners association dues, compared to 37.1% In 2024, 69.9% of pre-existing properties. In 2024, only 33.6% of condos for sale.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 18, 2024

By comparison, retail construction has slowed dramatically, averaging just 41-million square feet annually in recent years due to the rise of e-commerce. Residential Real Estate and Housing Shortages The construction of single-family homes peaked in the early 2000s with around 1.3 Despite this recovery, the U.S.

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Eyes on Housing

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Single-family built-for-rent construction posted year-over-year declines for the fourth quarter of 2024, as a higher cost of financing crowded out development activity. This slowdown is similar to the deceleration of multifamily construction in recent quarters.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

Builders face less competition due to the chronic housing shortage made worse by the sellers strike, but their construction costs have increased significantly. They also have to navigate regulatory restrictions , making it difficult to scale up construction to meet growing demand, let alone reduce the overall housing supply shortage.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Senate and House of Representatives have reintroduced a bill designed to address housing issues by rehabilitating or constructing millions of additional units in an effort to bring down costs for renters and homeowners. A coalition of Democratic lawmakers in the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2025

The South was already dominating the share of new construction and new home sales, and this strong sales showing in February only adds to the clear focus on new homes in the South, with 64.8% The mix of inventory available for sale by stage of construction is normalizing, added Fleming. of new home sales taking place in that region.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Redfin cited the boom in multifamily construction over the past few years as one reason why rents have remained stable. The surge in multifamily construction addressed demand in certain regions, particularly in the Sun Belt states, but builders are now slowing down.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

” Last week, following the release of construction data for September from the U.S. . “The current pending sales got a boost from lower mortgage rates last month, but those mortgage gains are gone now. This progress is just good enough to show some year-over-year gains and it may be fleeting.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

I think that we’ve underbuilt for 13 years in this country and in this state, so definitely, new construction is in order, she said. I’m just concerned about the price of new construction when we rely so much on imported goods for building these homes. That would definitely help with the sale pricing of new construction.

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