The challenge facing homeowners trying to sell in North Texas isn’t soft demand; it’s that builders down the street are offering rate buydowns and design credits that no individu...
Rework consumes an estimated 5 to 12 percent of total project cost on the average commercial build, according to research from the Construction Industry Institute and other industry studies,...
Months after the Altadena fires, the gap between approved permits and actual construction starts points to a bottleneck that has little to do with city bureaucracy. Homeowners with insurance...
Houston’s housing market sits in an unusual position among major U.S. metros. The fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country has maintained modest positive home price growth while...
Balanced market data can mask what’s actually happening on the ground. In Cypress, Texas, one of northwest Houston’s fastest-growing suburbs, the numbers through July 2026 show s...
The conventional narrative about commercial office space post-COVID is one of excess supply and desperate landlords. In northern and central New Jersey, the reality facing small and mid-size...
If you’re shopping for a home in one of the fast-growing communities on the edges of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the math on building equity looks very different than it did a few...
The fix-and-flip model has long attracted small investors who want a tangible, short-cycle return. But in lower Westchester County, the conditions that once made flipping viable are eroding....
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has more than 200 cities and suburbs, and it continues to expand outward. That expansion has flooded outer suburbs with new construction inventory, and the do...
In an industry where margins rank among the lowest of any major sector when risk is factored in, the process of sourcing bulk construction materials, aggregates, steel, pipe, and cementitiou...
The Northwest Houston resale market faces competitive pressure that has little to do with interest rates or buyer demand. New construction communities ringing the area offer aggressive buyer...
Builders in the Houston suburbs of Katy and Cypress are offering incentive packages large enough to make new construction cheaper than comparable resale homes, a reversal that is forcing exi...
For years, offsite and modular construction occupied a familiar position in housing conversations: promising in theory, unproven at scale, and haunted by high-profile failures from the last ...
Bakersfield’s housing market sits in an unusual position for California: median prices around $400,000, rising inventory, and builders actively offering credits and rate buydowns to at...
Home prices in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro are declining, but the cost of building anything continues to climb. That disconnect, cheaper finished homes, more expensive inputs, is compressing...
