Local improvement, however, will depend on how quickly foreclosures dissolve. By John Caulfield In its latest construction forecast, the NAHB on Wednesday stuck to its guns that “underlying fundamentals” such as low mortgage rates, decent economic growth, and pent-up demand for housing will drive double-digit percentage increases in home starts this year and next, and reverse catastrophic [...]

It’s hard not to notice when Baby Boomers start doing things. At 77 million strong, according to Census Bureau statistics, the group has long been a societal pig in the pythont, the front end of that lump arrived at age 65. And as has been done at every other life phase the group has entered [...]

  NAHB Second Vice Chairman Kevin Kelly and members Gary Lenker and Michael Colaizzo were invited to attend a White House Housing Forum on April 18 for stakeholders from the state of Pennsylvania. This forum is the first in a series that will focus on specific states. Senior Obama Administration officials from the White House, HUD, Treasury and [...]

Due to a recently discovered computer coding error, NAHB has revised the RMI going back to 2006. The error had slightly reduced the true values of the overall index, as well as its two major components. The revisions generally show a one point or less quarterly increase, with quarter-to-quarter patterns remaining relatively unchanged. Some of [...]

The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) released the Kitchen & Bath Market Report for the fourth quarter today. Although results convey a slight drop-off from third quarter in number of remodels and budgets, showroom visits held steady from a year ago and with marked increases from 2009 and 2010, optimism for the first quarter [...]