Construction

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...

Ocean City, New Jersey, is a barrier island in Cape May County where generations of families have vacationed, rented, and eventually bought property. The town bills itself as “America&...

Most homeowners replace a roof only when forced to, and the material they choose is usually whatever went on last time. But in regions where hurricanes, wildfires, and hailstorms have damage...

It sounds backward, but in New York’s Hudson Valley, paying a higher price for a home in good condition may cost less overall than buying a cheaper fixer-upper. Renovation costs have c...

Most first-time buyers in the Northeast assume new construction is out of reach. In the Capital Region of upstate New York – the sprawling metro area anchored by Albany, Schenectady, and S...

Most private owners in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) don’t learn the true cost of their custom home or renovation until the design is fully complete. By then, changing anything means startin...

When a storm destroys a roof, the instinct is to replace it with the same material. The insurance check often covers exactly that: the same style, with the same vulnerability. But in regions...

Cedar has long been the default choice for exterior wood applications in American residential construction. It’s available, familiar, and relatively affordable. But builders and archit...

Developers are increasingly betting that buyers will pay coastal prices for water they can’t get to the coast for. Engineered lagoons and machine-made surf breaks have moved from novel...

Homes in Celina, Texas have dropped 15 to 20 percent from their pandemic peaks, and 5.7 months of inventory suggests prices haven’t finished falling. The Dallas North Tollway extension...

Construction lenders appraise progress by visiting a job site and checking visible milestones: foundation poured, framing complete, roof on. That system breaks down when 60 to 80 percent of ...

The bidding wars in northern New Jersey have migrated away from the places most people expect. Downtown Jersey City – long the default destination for buyers priced out of Manhattan – ha...

In parts of upstate New York, a brand-new home costs about the same as monthly rent, or less. That reality surprises buyers who assume new construction means $800,000-plus price tags, accord...

The skilled-trade shortage in U.S. construction has persisted for years, but the industry’s response is taking a specific new form: developers are moving production into factories, and...