Talking Housing Bubble? Start Talking Turkey ... And Talking Taper
Global house prices reached unprecedented peaks at historical 12-month rates of growth. Is there a taper-tantrum in oaur near future?
Building Tech & Products
Material Crisis Can Pivot Into Material Opportunity: Here's How
Choked off supply – like now, where at every turn, fatal-error bottlenecks, with temporary but indefinite timelines for restoration of normalized channel volume, clog visibility – can and will quell demand. Where's the opportunity?
Land
Metro Magnetic: Pencilling How Much Commute Will Compute
Land acquisition strategy's challenge of the moment is to decipher signals vs. noise, reactiveness vs. initiation, impulse vs. intention as households shape geography's future.
Brief
Price Tag For Regulation Costs On New Home Construction: $94K
A 24% slice of the new-home selling price pie goes now to "regulatory burden," the weight of land-use permitting, impact fees, cost-of-time charges, etc. in the pre-construction stages, and the added expense of start-to-completion construction cycle code and regulation.
Policy
Cities, States Clash Over New Hook Ups To Natural Gas
There is no place for homebuilders to duck and cover in the crossfire between blue dot cities and red state governments over the battle to phase out natural gas in homes.