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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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With low inventory, house hunters are in full safari mode

Housing Wire

The nation’s housing industry has entered a new normal in which the dynamics of the market appear perplexing — marked by high mortgage rates and high home prices, along with shrinking mortgage originations. In other words, if there were more inventory, we would have more sales happening.” through the first quarter of 2024.”

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Why are sellers sitting on the housing market sidelines?

Housing Wire

For-sale inventory is at record lows. Construction is starting to pick up, so that should help alleviate things in the housing market. Is now a good time to sell a house? Four renovations to consider before selling your house. Worries about finding a replacement home in a hot housing market.

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Job gains slow in June, but are probably still too hot to sway the Fed

Housing Wire

Manufacturing activity remains quite weak, while consumer spending has held up somewhat better, and new home construction and sales have picked up. Employment in the construction industry has increased by an average of 15,000 per month thus far this year, compared with an average of 22,000 per month in 2022.

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The labor market showed signs of modest cooling in July

Housing Wire

Employment in the construction industry continued to trend up in July, adding 19,000 jobs, especially in the residential construction space. The ongoing shortage of housing inventory helped spur an increase in home building and home improvement activity, Kan said.

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Atlas, DivcoWest prepare $1B single-family rental venture

Housing Wire

Atlas Real Estate and DivcoWest declared last week that they will spend $1 billion “acquiring and renovating homes in high-growth states including Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah,” according to a press release. The record sales numbers of last fall have now been eclipsed by a story of free falling inventory.

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How top LOs plan to beat the odds in 2023

Housing Wire

Mortgage demand picked up in recent weeks due to rates declining to 6% levels and a massive backlog of homes under construction, as mentioned by HousingWire ‘s lead analyst Logan Mohtashami in a recent column. It’s positive news for an industry that has recently dealt with a lackluster amount of inventory.