How industries dependent on housing are adjusting business models in the post-boom world.
Offering incentives and discounts continues to be the status quo for most builders.
With tax credit gone and economy lagging, home buyers lose sense of urgency.
Despite weakness in May and June, housing starts will increase 15% this year...
A primer on what not to do in the current economy.
RCLCO’s annual list highlights the building blocks of housing's new normal.
BSB Design reveals how to craft a more effective and appealing collection of plans for your buyers.
WASHINGTON - A weak economy got a little lift Thursday with new data suggesting companies aren't pursuing mass layoffs and stores are a...
WASHINGTON - The unemployment rate rose in nearly half of the nation's 372 largest metro areas in July, as the pace of hiring slowed from...
But National Association of Realtors’ chief economist thinks homes sales will remain soft for “months ahead.”
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials signaled at their August meeting that they would consider going beyond a modest program to purchase...
Which housing markets are the best bets to recover first? We present our annual list of the 20 healthiest housing markets in the country.
Was your market one of the top 20 healthiest markets in the country? How about the next 20? Markets 21 through 40 will still outperform most large housing markets in 2010.
BUILDER ranks the top 100 home building markets by key metrics.
Our definitive annual report on the nation's largest home builders.
Up to the minute stories from around the web for and about the housing industry.
Boyce Thompson: Boyce On Building
Boyce Thompson is editorial director of the BUILDER group of magazines published by Hanley Wood. Drawing on his years of experience covering home building, architecture, and retailing, Boyce tackles diverse and far-ranging industry topics in his twice-weekly blog.
We've started a series of stories available only online, "Home Building 360: Dealing with the Downturn," about the collateral damage from the housing downturn, if you will. By that, I'm talking about all the industries, besides home building, that have been decimated by the 75% peak-to-trough decline.
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Consumers will reap rewards from state homebuilders' legislative efforts to tighten contractor registration requirements.
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Emax3 uses triple panes that provide 55 percent better insulation.
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