New single-family home size had been falling since 2015 in response to declining affordability conditions. While an exception occurred in 2021 when new home size increased as interest rates reached historic lows, as mortgage interest rates increased in 2022 and …
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California, Texas and Florida continue to account for the largest shares of remodeling activity nationwide, according to first quarter results from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) State Projections of Remodeling (SPR). The SPR offers a quarterly state-by-state analysis …
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According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau, overall housing starts in May decreased 9.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.26 million units. Single-family starts increased 0.4% to a 924,000 seasonally …
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Danushka Nanayakkara-Skillington is the assistant vice president for forecasting and analysis at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). She oversees the activities of the forecasting and analysis section of the economics group which includes housing market analysis, industry surveys, …
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Even as home builders report shortages of building materials and products, new research from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) suggests pros are also seeing sharp increases in product prices. In the latest version of the NAHB and Wells …
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Welcome to the first issue of High Performance Retailing, a collaboration between the North American Retail Hardware Association and market research firm The Farnsworth Group. Each quarterly installment aims to deliver actionable, relevant data to independent home improvement retailers to …
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