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What It Takes to Leave Parental Home
What It Takes to Leave Parental Home
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As of 2024, one in five adults aged 25-34 lives with parents or in-laws. NAHB’s analysis of the latest American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) evaluates a ...
Who Drives Remodeling Spending?
Who Drives Remodeling Spending?
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Residential remodeling is an important and growing sector of the housing market, particularly as elevated mortgage rates and limited housing inventory encourage many homeowners to improve their existing homes rather ...
Builder Sentiment Posts Gain in May but Significant Affordability Challenges Persist
Builder Sentiment Posts Gain in May but Significant Affordability Challenges Persist
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Builder confidence posted a modest gain in May even as buyers grapple with rising mortgage rates and economic uncertainty while builders continue to contend with elevated land, labor and construction ...
Credit for Builders Tightens in the First Quarter, But Only Slightly
Credit for Builders Tightens in the First Quarter, But Only Slightly
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Credit conditions on loans for residential Land Acquisition, Development & Construction (AD&C) were still tightening in the first quarter of 2026, but only slightly, according to NAHB’s quarterly survey on ...
Single-Family Permits Continue to Weaken in Early 2026
Single-Family Permits Continue to Weaken in Early 2026
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Residential construction permitting activity presented a mixed picture through the first quarter of 2026, as weakness in the single-family market contrasted with continued strength in multifamily development. Elevated financing costs, ...
Mostly Unchanged Demand, Lending Conditions for Residential Mortgages in First Quarter
Mostly Unchanged Demand, Lending Conditions for Residential Mortgages in First Quarter
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Lending standards and demand for most types of residential mortgages were essentially in the first quarter of 2026, according to the recent release of the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS). ...
Residential Construction Input Prices Move Higher In April
Residential Construction Input Prices Move Higher In April
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Prices rose across a host of goods and services used in residential construction. Rising energy prices were the primary driver, but transportation service prices also rose at their fastest pace ...
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Professionals in the housing industry know that demography and housing are closely related. The total number of households and their respective forms are fundamental drivers of housing demand. With this in mind, we thought it would be interesting to take a quick look at the geographic distribution...

The homebuyer tax credit program is in the past for the housing industry. But we can begin to take a look back at the impact of the program using Internal Revenue Service data from 2009 to map where the tax credit was claimed by homebuyers. As with the energy...

As we enter into the last week of the 2010 tax filing season, it is a good time to look at some basic statistics concerning how construction firms, including home builders, organize for tax purposes and how much revenue they pay to the federal government. We...

The Government Accountability Office has released a report tallying the number of homebuyers benefitting from the homebuyer tax credit. The numbers are still incomplete as the IRS continues to process submitted claims. Further, some homebuyers will not claim the credit until the end of the...

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