On August 16th, I wrote a column entitled, “A Shortage of Homes”. In it, I wrote about a lack of quality homes for sale at $250,000 and below. I attributed this to the inventory statistics from Metrolist, plus the knowledge of knowing many homes builders that either have gone out of business or who have [...]

You think I’m crazy, don’t you. You may think it’s not a good time to do anything, but I’ve been talking to builders lately and they make a strong case for why it’s never been a better time to build. Cornerstone Homes owner KC Jones says, “Material costs are down. Labor is very accessible and [...]

New-home construction rose 22.2 percent in February, compared to January, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 583,000 units.
Applications for building permits, which are considered a good measure of future building, rose 3 percent in February to an annual rate of 547,000.
Both increases surprised analysts who had predicted further downturns. Housing construction is still down [...]

Copper is big business so home owners beware. See this article I found earlier this week from the National Association of Realtors.
With copper at more than $4 per pound, thanks to demand in Asia, home owners should guard the metal like it was gold.
“You would never leave gold sitting out in the yard,” says OneBeacon [...]

This should not come as a suprise to many people, but builders are not only cutting back on home production, but size as well. I saw this article earlier this week from
Alllan Lengel in the Washington Post. Read on:
Home builders are cutting back on square footage and offering fewer amenities to keep the costs down.
“We [...]