Canadian housing starts decreased 6% in March to 235,852 units, compared to February’s total of 250,961 units. According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), actual housing starts were up 10% year-over-year in localities with a population of 10,000 or...
Retail construction activity declined during the first quarter of 2026, according to new data from CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP). During the first three months of the year, approximately 64.2 million square feet of retail space was under construction. This is down from...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Last week, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) number-crunched data from the American Community Survey and came up with a remarkable result: Roughly half of the nation’s housing stock was built in the 1980s and earlier, with slightly...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled Neighborhood Builders Fast Track, an expedited process designed to speed the delivery of affordable housing on city-owned land. Under this new initiative, the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation Development...
Single-family housing starts in January were at a rate of 935,000, according to data from the US Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 2.8% below the revised December figure of 962,000. Privately-owned housing starts in January...
Equifax Says Nearly 2,000 Mortgage Firms Used Its VantageScore Offer
