Housing Starts Down 14.4% in August



Nationwide housing starts plunged in August, mostly attributed to a 31.7 percent decline in the multifamily market, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau reports.

Six Up and Coming Real Estate Design Trends



What home-design trends will likely catch on in new construction?

Condo Popularity Soars to New Heights



Builders are reaching for the skies with recent condo projects, and some are soaring to the highest heights ever.

Take A Look At These Futuristic Building Materials



While it doesn’t look like we’ll get our flying cars too soon, your clients may yet park their normal old cars in driveways attached to homes and buildings of a very different sort.

New Residential and Townhouse Projects for Dallas



Plans are in the works for 900 homes on one of the largest undeveloped properties in Far North Dallas. The more than 160-acre site is adjacent to the Texas A&M Agrilife Research and Extension Center on Coit Road just north of Campbell Road.

Millenials shun traditional homes: Builders need to respond



Millennials are going to be a big force in the housing industry in the years to come, but for homebuilders, they may be trouble.

$1.8M Home Must Be Removed From Public Park



A Rhode Island developer has been ordered to remove a $1.8 million waterfront home in Narragansett, R.I., that was mistakenly built on land owned by a park foundation.

Building Costs Rise Due To Lot Shortages



Homebuilders who did not buy up land during the housing downturn are facing much higher costs today — and that may get passed on to home buyers.

Luxury Home Builders Take A Gamble As Inventories Decline



Some developers are taking a gamble by building multimillion-dollar speculative homes — those that don’t have a buyer lined up — in posh areas across the country, Forbes.com reports.

House Construction Figures Lower than Expected



This is supposed to be the year that the housing construction industry finally begins to make a strong comeback, but there are concerns this might not happen. An article in CNN Money.com points out that even though the housing market recovery began a couple of years ago, and property prices finally began to increase, the […]