Financials
Business financials advice, reports, and trends for professional home builders and remodelers.
While today’s low interest rates have added to consumers’ ability to keep buying homes, it might be time to read the tea leaves.
The seasonally-adjusted annualized rate of building permits let for new housing construction rose sharply again between November and December of 2001...
The total number of residential permits issued nationwide during 2001 was 2.3% greater than in 2000, according to preliminary estimates coming out of...
Construction loan debt is typically variable and tied to the prime rate, so the big drop in interest rates during the past year has benefited many...
The seasonally-adjusted annualized rate of building permits let for new housing construction rose sharply between October and November 2001 following...
Summer is all about remodeling: remodeled bodies for pride on the beach, remodeled films with a bigger Roman numeral on the end for the cinema multi-...
Money magazine is a pretty good gauge of the overall climate on Wall Street. So what, according to its December issue, is today’s best stock value?...
When the National Association of Realtors announced that existing single-family home sales had dropped 11.7% in September, a shudder ran throughout...
This month is about giving thanks and on the business side of life, we are grateful for anything that makes our jobs easier.
Fannie Mae economist David Berson concedes that the U.S. economy is in a recession but says it likely will be short and that the recovery, by the...
