Category Archives: Real Estate

You may have noticed there’s an awful lot of writing on the Internet. All joking aside, using videos instead of text on your website, blog or marketing emails can help set your business apart from the competition. The presentation service … Continue reading →

Housing market impacted by adult kids being happier at home — despite lower jobless rate and higher personal incomes. Just as baby boomers are honing their retirement strategies and considering downsizing because of their new empty nest, American homes are … Continue reading →

By Sam Rashkin If it did, you would probably laugh … thus the term the laugh test. But they don’t. Car buyers today routinely get 60,000 mile, and in some cases 100,000 mile warranty coverage. If cars routinely last up to … Continue reading →

NCHBA legislative team is delighted to report that Governor Pat McCrory announced late Thursday that he had signed House Bill 201 Zoning Changes/Citizen Input into law. Repeal of municipal protest petition authority has been one of NCHBA’s top legislative priorities … Continue reading →

New-home construction in the U.S. climbed in June to the second-highest level since November 2007 as builders stepped up work on apartment projects. Housing starts rose 9.8 percent to a 1.17 million annualized rate from a revised 1.07 million in … Continue reading →

NAHB and other farm and business organizations filed a lawsuit today seeking to overturn a federal rule that defines the “waters of the United States” and the jurisdictional scope of the Clean Water Act. The suit, which was brought against the … Continue reading →

More Americans are ready to go out and buy a home.  That’s good news, on a lot of levels.  The number of Americans that believe it is a good time to buy a home has gone up, according to Wells … Continue reading →

The home ownership rate in the U.S. has been tumbling since the height of the housing boom. Fewer and fewer of us own our homes — because foreclosures claimed them from us, or because the housing bust taught us to … Continue reading →

Declining Warranty Costs In general, we find this group to have relatively low warranty expenses, both on a total dollar basis and as a percentage of their sales revenue. And while there has been a downturn in both their sales … Continue reading →