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The new and improved BUILDER Market Health Index, compiled by Hanley Wood Market Intelligence, now accounts for a market's median income growth.
Virtually every market was down last year, but a close look at the numbers reveals that some markets have way outperformed others during the last four years and are likely to continue to do so this year.
The fundamentals are so poor in many of these markets that they are likely to be among the last to recover from the national housing downturn. The weakest markets for 2009 are comprised primarily of bust markets in Florida and California, along with a few rust-belt cities with economic difficulties.
You’ve seen the 15 healthiest and the 15 weakest, now see the remaining markets on our list of the top 75 local housing markets, ranked from healthiest to weakest.
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A Home for the New Economy will be like nothing you've ever experienced. A depth of smart, efficient, and economical building concepts and...
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Boyce Thompson: Boyce On Building
Boyce Thompson is editorial director of the BUILDER group of magazines published by Hanley Wood. Drawing on his years of experience covering home building, architecture, and retailing, Boyce tackles diverse and far-ranging industry topics in his twice-weekly blog.
You can read the best advice in magazines and blogs and never act on it. Then, when you hear the same message delivered by an authority at a conference, it has a magical effect and moves you to action. That's the beauty of great conference presentations.
Mollie Elkman: Modern Marketing
Mollie is Vice President of Group Two Real Estate Marketing and Advertising, one of the largest homebuilder marketing and advertising agencies in the United States. Mollie¹s blog focuses on initiating thought provoking conversations within the building industry. She focuses on new and controversial trends in the increasingly Internet savvy world we live in.
Are you addicted to facebook? I clearly am! I recently found this report which shows that facebook addiction may not be such a bad thing after all. For all those parents out there... You may not want to show this to your kids!
Ted Cushman: The Ten-Penny News
Ted Cushman covers the home building industry as a freelance writer from his base in the hills of Western Massachusetts. His blog promises insightful, accurate, and practical coverage of home building techniques, building science, and housing economics.
In the New Orleans courtroom of Federal Judge Eldon Fallon, the second of several "bellwether" trials is unfolding this week in the Chinese-made drywall fiasco. Facing off are the Hernandez family of Mandeville, Louisiana, and the Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co. Ltd., based in China but owned by the German conglomerate Knauf Gips.
Chuck Shinn: Rx from the Profit Doctor
Charles C. Shinn, Jr., PhD, often referred to as the Profit Doctor, is the founder of the Shinn Group of Cos., The Lee Evans Group, and Builder Partnerships. His constant focus is to help builders and manufacturers to improve the performance of their companies, enhance relationships, and ultimately maximize their total profits.
For the last several days I have read articles by housing industry pundits and listened to the weekend financial shows about the January seasonally adjusted annual new home sales rate being the slowest pace on record at 309,000. They stated that the housing recovery is fragile, which it is, and that the housing recovery is uncertain. Some have said that housing is headed for a double dip recovery. I am not as pessimistic about the January new home sales and want to put a different perspective on the meaning of the January numbers.
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