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Homes in Arlington, Texas, cost about what they did in Brooklyn 30 years ago, without any special subsidies.| The Real Deal
Hosted by Shane Phillips, the podcast continues to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world housing solutions.| UCLA Luskin
Cities must deploy new responses to a norm-breaking federal government. The post Three days in D.C., one grim takeaway: America can’t look to feds to solve housing crisis appeared first on Atlanta Civic Circle.| Atlanta Civic Circle
24-year-old IT systems engineer Sam Foster’s challenge to four-term Marietta Mayor Steve “Thunder” Tumlin. The post Upstart mayoral challenger tests Marietta’s old guard appeared first on Atlanta Civic Circle.| Atlanta Civic Circle
The typical home that sold last month went for 1.4% less than its final list price—the biggest September discount in six years—as a slow housing market empowered buyers to negotiate. The typical home that sold also spent 50 days on the market—the slowest September pace in nearly a decade. Existing-home sales inched up to the […] The post Homebuyers Are Scoring the Biggest Autumn Discounts Since 2019 appeared first on Redfin Real Estate News.| Redfin Real Estate News
A new study from the Institute for Family Studies links shrinking apartments to falling birth rates. It suggests developers could help stabilize the nation’s population by building more family-sized rental homes.| The Builder's Daily
Homes in Arlington, Texas, cost about what they did in Brooklyn 30 years ago, without any special subsidies.| The Real Deal
Jason M. Barr September 29, 2025 Public housing remains a controversial subject. On the one hand, America’s government-owned and operated housing stock is widely viewed as worse than the privately owned housing it replaced. Yet today, with an affordability crisis raging across America’s cities, there are calls for governments to build […] The post Public Housing: A View From the 21st Century first appeared on Building the Skyline. The post Public Housing: A View From the 21s...| Building the Skyline
Two-in-five satisfied with projects announced, one-in-three unsatisfied, many not yet sure September 23, 2025 – Prime Minister Mark Carney’s big reveal of the first five major projects to be built in the “national interest” is drawing mixed reviews from Canadians. New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Canadians responding to this initial list with a mix of positivity,… The post Major Projects Reaction: Canadians give mixed reviews to first five proposals; most say ...| Angus Reid Institute
The typical home that sold in August went for nearly 4% under its asking price–the steepest discount for that month since 2019.| Redfin Real Estate News
Luxury home sale prices rose 3.9% year over year to a median $1.25 million, a record high for the month of August, but down from the all-time high of $1.35 million in March, a month when prices are typically higher.| Redfin Real Estate News
Starter-home sales increased 3.8% year over year, rising for the 12th consecutive month to the highest August level in three years. In comparison, sales of mid-price homes fell 0.6% year over year in July, while high-price homes) fell 1.2%. Sales of mid- and high-price homes have declined year over year each month since February.| Redfin Real Estate News
The share of mortgaged U.S. homeowners with a rate of at least 6% rose to 19.7% in the second quarter, the highest level since 2015. And with the weekly average mortgage rate fluctuating above 6% since September 2022, that share is growing steadily—rising between 0.8ppts and 1.4ppts each quarter for the past two years.| Redfin Real Estate News
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Housing is certainly more expensive than in the past. I have written about this several times, including a post from last year showing that between about 2017 and 2022 housing started to get really…| Economist Writing Every Day
The measure won bipartisan support from the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee last month.| Atlanta Civic Circle
Here's a look at Berkshire Hathaway's first major investment foray into the public homebuilders in 25 years, and why D.R. Horton, NVR, and Lennar stood out amidst a raft of ongoing near- and mid-term challenges in the housing market.| The Builder's Daily
Over the past six years, from Canada Day 2018 to Canada Day 2024, Canada’s population has grown by over 4.2 million people, requiring a substantial increase in Canada’s housing supply. This rapid naturally leads to the question, Which communities are getting it done when it comes to homebuilding? In this memo, Ontario Communities Falling Behind […] The post Ontario Communities Falling Behind on Homebuilding appeared first on Place Centre.| Place Centre
Although shortages are not quite as widespread as they were in 2021, obtaining lots remains a challenge for many builders, according to recent results from the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) survey. In special questions on the May 2025 HMI survey, 38% of single-family builders characterized the supply of lots as low, and another…| Eye On Housing
Using Parcl Labs data, we dive into more housing trends, this time for current listings on the metro Atlanta housing market. The post Metro Market Monitor: Other Trends in the 2025 Housing Market appeared first on 33n.| 33n
Pulling data from ATTOM, we examine metro housing activity thus far in 2025.| 33n
A go-big and go-bold homebuilding start-up strategy may sound counterintuitive in the throes of what looks to be a hard patch for housing. Wade Jurney and his to National Home Corp. co-founders, Michael Bergman, and Gregg Erickson, beg to differ.| The Builder's Daily
An activist campaign is ramping up to pressure the property owner to make long-overdue repairs.| Atlanta Civic Circle
Read Housing advocates call for reducing barriers to affordable housing by Adrianne Murchison for SaportaReport here.| SaportaReport
Alan Ferguson left Atlanta Housing to become DeKalb County’s chief housing officer.| Atlanta Civic Circle
CHBA's 2025 Q2 Housing Market Index (HMI) saw little change since last quarter, with builders remaining decidedly pessimistic about sales conditions. CHBA’s single-family HMI is 24.9 (out of 100), and the multi-family HMI is 22.8 – both at near record lows, and firmly in negative builder sentiment territory for the twelfth straight quarter. The post Canada’s new home construction challenges ongoing amid economic uncertainty appeared first on Canadian Home Builders' Association.| Canadian Home Builders' Association
CHBA applauds the government's move to table legislative proposals to amend the Excise Tax Act to make good on its promise to introduce a new GST rebate for first-time home buyers (named the “FTHB GST Rebate”), which will remove the GST on new homes at or under $1 million and lower it on homes between $1 million and $1.5 million for all first-time home buyers, effective May 27, 2025. The post CHBA applauds federal action to adjust GST rebate on new construction homes for first-time buyers...| Canadian Home Builders' Association
Today, the federal government missed its opportunity to use the Speech from the Throne to make good on its election promise to immediately implement the removal of the GST on new homes at or under $1 million and lower it on homes between $1 million and $1.5 million. The lack of actual implementation of this measure is keeping would-be home buyers on the sidelines, which is negatively impacting the construction of new homes. The post Government misses important opportunity to enact critical ho...| Canadian Home Builders' Association
CHBA's 2025 Q1 Housing Market Index (HMI) is in its eleventh quarter of negative sentiment since dropping from the post-pandemic highs in 2021 and early 2022. While industry sentiment has been low for eleven quarters, builders have typically remained optimistic that future sales would be an improvement over their current sales conditions (though still in negative territory). However, that optimism has dissolved. The post Dim outlook for new home construction in Ontario and BC as sentiment in ...| Canadian Home Builders' Association
Today’s announcement by Prime Minister Mark Carney that the Government of Canada will eliminate the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for first-time homebuyers on homes at or under $1 million is a welcome move to help make housing more affordable for those looking to buy their first home. It will also help spur the creation of more housing supply, which is much needed. CHBA has also argued that while an important permanent move, GST relief is especially significant now as it will help to counter...| Canadian Home Builders' Association
Today on Parliament Hill during a press conference to release the third CHBA Municipal Benchmarking Study, Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) CEO Kevin Lee took the opportunity to speak about how the U.S. tariffs and Canada’s countervailing tariffs would likely impact Canada’s residential construction industry. The post Tariffs negative impact on overall economy will likely slow down housing starts appeared first on Canadian Home Builders' Association.| Canadian Home Builders' Association
Important as it is, the housing imperative is the least of our problems. Growth comes with costs that Earth can no longer bear.| VTDigger
“There are many clear violations of the right to due process, and the legal community is prepared to challenge many parts of this order.”| Atlanta Civic Circle
Affordability challenges persist despite lower mortgage rates; wealthier buyers dominate sales while entry-level demand struggles amid rising home prices, monthly payment, and downpayment challenges.| The Builder's Daily
“It’s a prelude to dystopia,” said local housing advocate Tim Franzen.| Atlanta Civic Circle
Jason M. Barr October 29, 2024 Let’s travel back a century—to New York during the Roaring Twenties. On our journey, we will see a very different Gotham–not just flappers, speakeasys, and the new jazz–but more importantly massive housing construction. Arguably, 1921 to 1929 was the greatest housing boom in New York’s history. Units of all […] The post The Housing Twenties: New York’s Biggest Building Boom and Its Lessons for Today first appeared on B...| Building the Skyline
More than $330 billion worth of listings have been sitting on the market for 60 days or longer. Rising inventory and slow homebuying demand is pushing up the total dollar amount of home listings, and will push down home-sale prices by the end of the year.| Redfin Real Estate News
A grim prognosis The Government of Canada’s strategic foresight organization, Policy Horizons Canada, recently issued a report that anticipates a Canada in dire straits in 15 years. The report, with the title “Future Lives: Examining Social Mobility,” describes a scenario where Canadians can’t get ahead no matter how hard they work. Most Canadians will be [...]| Population Institute Canada
Mortgage rates are forecasted to stay elevated near 7%.| Redfin Real Estate News
The jump in housing supply put downward pressure on prices, which grew at the slowest pace in nearly two years last month.| Redfin Real Estate News
Jason M. Barr March 6, 2025 Note: This post is the second of two on the drivers of Gotham’s historically low vacancy rates. You can read Part I here. New York’s rental housing vacancy rate is 1.4%—the lowest since 1969. The lack of available housing means that Gotham remains in a “housing emergency”—defined, by […] The post Why Has Gotham Been in a “Housing Emergency” for 80 Years? (Part II) first appeared on Building the Skyline. The post Why Ha...| Building the Skyline
Mystery migrants In the spring of 2024, a friend called to tell me about a meeting he had with his City of Ottawa councillor. She had told him that, at the time, three community centres in her ward that| Population Institute Canada
Home prices in the United States are poised to increase if tariffs on Canada and Mexico are actually implemented, builders argue.| CandysDirt.com
Jason M. Barr January 22, 2025 If you google the definition of “emergency,” the search engine provides a response from the Oxford Languages Dictionary: “a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.” Merriam-Webster comes in with similar wording: “an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action.” […] The post Why Has Gotham Been in a “Housing Emergency” for 80 Year...| Building the Skyline
The new year could prove to be more exciting than many of us might wish. The spirit of “Peace on Earth and good will toward men” is in short supply in extensive regions of the world. Even in the| Population Institute Canada
Jason M. Barr August 5, 2024 A few weeks ago, I was walking in Central Park on the Upper West Side. As I strolled past some benches near the Diana Ross Playground, I saw a young man, likely in his late twenties, with his face buried in a huge, white-covered book. When I got closer, […] The post The Power Author: Robert Caro, Robert Moses, and the “Fall” of New York first appeared on Building the Skyline. The post The Power Author: Robert Caro, Robert Moses, and the “...| Building the Skyline
The Ramada Plaza Hotel site’s transformation promises much-needed affordable rental housing in a southside community that’s undergone astonishing growth.| Atlanta Civic Circle
Jason M. Barr August 5, 2024 A few weeks ago, I was walking in Central Park on the Upper West Side. As I strolled past some benches near the Diana Ross Playground, I saw a young man, likely in his late twenties, with his face buried in a huge, white-covered book. When I got closer,| Building the Skyline - The Birth & Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Canadians are frequently told that continuous growth is just what their country needs. But when surveyed, they have never expressed a craving for it. They want safe communities, access to nature, equality and the rule of law. They place| Population Institute Canada
That's down from 21% in 2022 and over 40% before the pandemic homebuying boom. Fortunately, housing affordability is expected to improve in 2024.| Redfin Real Estate News
