Homeowners who lose their homes to wildfire, flood, tornado or another national disaster often lose the records needed to prove their losses – for tax purposes, obtaining federal assistance or reimbursement from their insurance companies.
An offer can easily disappear if a seller isn’t around to accept or counter it. If you are totally out-of-pocket for days at a time, your wannabe buyer might just move on.
A Springfield golf course manager was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing money from municipal golf courses and using the funds to build houses.
Lots for new-build single-family homes reached a new record high nationwide in 2018, with prices in the five New England states sitting at more than double the national median.
Boston will be second only to one other American city in terms of investor demand for real estate assets, according to the Urban Land Institute’s 2020 forecast.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) rolled new resources on Tuesday to help residential construction companies address the opioid crisis facing the home building industry.
Homebuyers who expect their newly built castles to be flawless masterpieces are only fooling themselves: The perfect, zero-defect house has yet to be built. But every builder has a whopper of a story about a big mistake.
Annual gains in improvement and repair spending on the owner-occupied housing stock are projected to continue decelerating through early next year nationwide, according to researchers at Harvard University.
U.S. home construction slipped 0.3 percent in March, as housing starts are running below last year’s pace in a sign that inventory could be a challenge for would-be buyers.
U.S. homebuilding fell to a one-year low in September as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma disrupted the construction of single-family homes in the South, suggesting that housing probably remained a drag on economic growth in the third quarter.
U.S. homebuilding fell more than expected in March as the construction of single-family homes in the Midwest recorded its biggest decline in three years, but an increase in building permits suggested the housing market recovery remained intact.
U.S. construction spending rose to a near 11-year high in February amid robust gains in homebuilding investment.
U.S. homebuilding fell in January as the construction of multifamily housing projects dropped, but upward revisions to the prior month’s data and a jump in permits to a one-year high suggested the housing recovery remained on track.
U.S. homebuilding fell more than expected in November, tumbling from a nine-year high as construction activity declined broadly, which could prompt further downward revisions to fourth-quarter economic growth estimates.
