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Panel Build contributes to 15 new Habitat for Humanity homes
DES MOINES, Iowa — Habitat for Humanity hosted the final Panel Build of 2024, creating panels which will be used in 15 homes being built in northeast Des Moines. The build was hosted outside of the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity ReStore, where employees of the store and volunteers built 26 exterior wall panels…
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Here’s why we won’t build millions of new homes
We heard a lot about the need for millions of new homes during the run-up to the election, so I can imagine how shocked some people are to see today’s report on housing starts and permits at recession levels. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari recently stated that housing demand is high so the clearance rate…
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Builders have 108,000 unsold homes. Good luck trying to buy one.
Builders have too many new homes on their hands. Thanks to a construction boom years in the making, homebuilders are sitting on more newly completed homes than at any point since 2009, when the market was reeling from the global financial crisis. Despite the hefty ready-to-sell supply, a sizable chunk of those homes may never…
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Panel Build contributes to 15 new Habitat for Humanity homes
DES MOINES, Iowa — Habitat for Humanity hosted the final Panel Build of 2024, creating panels which will be used in 15 homes being built in northeast Des Moines. The build was hosted outside of the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity ReStore, where employees of the store and volunteers built 26 exterior wall panels…
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Here’s why we won’t build millions of new homes
We heard a lot about the need for millions of new homes during the run-up to the election, so I can imagine how shocked some people are to see today’s report on housing starts and permits at recession levels. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari recently stated that housing demand is high so the clearance rate…
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Builders have 108,000 unsold homes. Good luck trying to buy one.
Builders have too many new homes on their hands. Thanks to a construction boom years in the making, homebuilders are sitting on more newly completed homes than at any point since 2009, when the market was reeling from the global financial crisis. Despite the hefty ready-to-sell supply, a sizable chunk of those homes may never…
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Panel Build contributes to 15 new Habitat for Humanity homes
DES MOINES, Iowa — Habitat for Humanity hosted the final Panel Build of 2024, creating panels which will be used in 15 homes being built in northeast Des Moines. The build was hosted outside of the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity ReStore, where employees of the store and volunteers built 26 exterior wall panels…
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Here’s why we won’t build millions of new homes
We heard a lot about the need for millions of new homes during the run-up to the election, so I can imagine how shocked some people are to see today’s report on housing starts and permits at recession levels. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari recently stated that housing demand is high so the clearance rate…
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What’s Working: Colorado builders stick with rate incentives to attract new-home buyers
Traffic picked up this year at the Oakwood Homes sales office for Banning Lewis Ranch, where new homes in the northern Colorado Springs neighborhood start in the mid-$300,000s. But business is nowhere near pre-pandemic levels or even during the pandemic, when home buying was in a frenzy, Lauren Hanshaw, a new-home counselor at the office,…
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Here’s why we won’t build millions of new homes
We heard a lot about the need for millions of new homes during the run-up to the election, so I can imagine how shocked some people are to see today’s report on housing starts and permits at recession levels. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari recently stated that housing demand is high so the clearance rate…