Industry Data & Research

Industry data and research for professional home builders and remodelers.
Meritage Homes, orders, July, August, increase, 33 percent, 2012
Meritage Homes announced Wednesday that it had received orders for a net total (minus cancellations) of 784 homes in July and August of 2012.
Zelman & Associates announced today that David Platt has joined the firm as Managing Director.  With over 15 years of investment banking...
United States metro area diversity
A study by Pennsylvania State University researchers, titled “Racial and Ethnic Diversity Goes Local: Charting Change in American Communities Over...
NAHB, Improving Markets Index, IMI, September 2012, 99 metro areas
The number of improving housing markets across the country rose to 99 in September, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First...
Trulia, Price Monitor, Rent Monitor, August, 2012, turnaround, Las Vegas, Tucson
For the seventh straight month, asking prices on for-sale homes showed an increase in August, rising 2.3 percent year-over-year according to the...
Trulia, 10, school district, attractive, most, least, elementary, children
A recently completed study by Trulia analyzed elementary school districts across the nation to determine which attracted the most—and least—families...
S&P/Case-Shiller: Home prices continue to climb in June
More positive news for housing this morning, with Standard & Poor’s Case Shiller report showing that home prices rose 2.2 percent and 2.3 percent...
According to a report by real estate website Zillow, the percent of homeowners with negative equity is on the decline. As of the second quarter, 30.9...
Americans have shown continued interest in buying and owning homes. The demand for new homes is real. We need to keep focused on removing obstacles...
new home sales, July 2012, rise, housing supply, record low, 3.6 percent
Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 3.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 372,000 units in July from an upwardly revised...
 

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