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Economists Forecast Homeownership Rate Drop As Millennials Buy First Homes Later

Press Releases As Millennials Delay First-Time Home Purchases, National Homeownership Rate will Continue to Fall Rising mortgage interest rates expected to have negative impact on number of home sales; Pace of home value growth to slow through 2018, according to … Continue reading

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Honeywell Answers Nest With Lyric

Honeywell’s Lyric thermostat doesn’t just learn, it adapts. The coolest smart thermostat contender we’ve seen since Nest, Lyric adjusts a home’s temperature based on proximity, not predictability. It’ll actually be part of a broader network of smart home devices that also will fall under … Continue reading

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Pick Your Payment Poison

There are a plethora of payment options business owners can offer–just make sure you know what you’re taking on before you start paying folks in bitcoin, stock options, or offering up snazzy company cars as in-kind payments. However it is … Continue reading

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Q1 Housing Start Trends

The Commerce Department released first-quarter data this morning for housing starts, permits, and completions including April readings. Jonathan Smoke, chief economist at Hanley Wood, and Brad Hunter, chief economist at Metrostudy offer market insight on the growth in single-family starts and concentration … Continue reading

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NCHBA Works to Ensure Curbside Mail Delivery for Home Owners in New Subdivisions; Please Forward Information ASAP

NCHBA was contacted by the HBA of Raleigh-Wake County and the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition (TREBIC) on behalf of their developer members, who have been required to put Centralized Box Units (CBUs) for mail receipt instead of … Continue reading

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Home Warranty Options Sometimes Limited, but Not Impossible

Mesa, AZ: Home warranties, whether they be the standard warranty offered by builders or an extended warranty available from a myriad of different companies, can be a complex animal. And aside from a situation affecting a Jefferson County homeowner, who found herself in … Continue reading

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New Home Sales Will March to New Highs Soon

New Home Sales Will March to New Highs Soon By Jonathan Smoke The Commerce Department will report the first preliminary read on New Home Sales for March this morning. Economists are expecting an increase in March of just over 2 percent … Continue reading

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Callbacks Revisited

By Joe Stoddard. Callbacks, defects, warranty work, omissions: Call it what you want, it all amounts to a much greater impact to the bottom line than most builders realize. In fact, few even add up the total cost, which includes … Continue reading

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Don’t sign up for an extended home warranty until you do your homework.

  Industry experts say there are certain steps to follow before purchasing a warranty. According to Angie’s List, home companies are the worst-graded category on the consumer-review site. Carmel homeowner Lindsay Ohmer said she got a warranty when she bought … Continue reading

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Home-builders’ confidence still shaky

The spring selling season is fast approaching, but home builders remain in a dour mood. A survey of builders on the prospect of single-family home sales remained basically flat, and a bit pessimistic, in March, same as the month before. … Continue reading

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