In brief: Homebuilders are pressing federal regulators to make wetlands permitting easier to predict as the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers consider another revision to the definition of federally regulated waters.The National Association...
Sales of new single-family houses in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 607,000, according to estimates from the US Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 10.5% below the June rate of 678,000 and is 6.3% below the...
A real estate fraudster being chased by the FBI, an ex-CEO trying to take over his former company, and the upcoming demolition of a historic site in sports betting. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Aug. 17-21....
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes inched up one point to 35 in August, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report. Any HMI reading under 50 indicates that more builders...
A new forecast is predicting a considerable slowing for the remodeling market next year. According to the latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity data from the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard’s University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, annual...