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In recognition of National Homeownership Month in June, we surveyed American homeowners about how their homes and neighborhoods make them feel. Most homeowners have warm feelings about their home, with 74% saying their home is a reflection of who they are. The same share, 74%, agreed they would rather be home than…
Examines the role of tax incentives as policy tools in supporting residential development and housing market expansion.
Nareit analysis of economic and real estate indicators projecting continued growth and improving REIT earnings across GDP, labor, housing, and commercial real estate sectors.
Luxury U.S. home prices are up 4.7% year over year, compared to a 1.5% increase in non luxury prices, as homebuying demand from affluent people continues to outpace demand from average Americans. High-end buyers are more active partly because they’re less sensitive to high mortgage rates and today’s economic…
Construction job openings in the United States increased to 298,000 in May 2026, up from 266,000 in April and 222,000 a year prior, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey cited by the National Association of Home Builders. The construction job openings rate rose to 3.5% in May compared to 2.6% a year earlier, though current levels remain lower than three years ago due to weakness in residential construction partially offset by gains in nonresidential sectors such as data center construction.
Analysis of Gen X homebuying and selling participation in the residential market based on generational trends data.
NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun discusses the actual impact of distressed properties on the housing market.
NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun presents analysis of residential real estate conditions and economic trends at the Residential Issues and Trends Forum.
First-time buyer participation reaches its highest level since mid-2020, driven by improved inventory levels and declining inspection waivers in the residential market.
National Association of Realtors provides metropolitan statistical area profiles analyzing demographics and characteristics of home buyers across U.S. markets.
RCLCO and Launch Development Finance Advisors examine infrastructure financing and construction approaches across top-performing master-planned communities.
RCLCO and Launch Development Finance Advisors examine how master-planned communities finance and construct public infrastructure.
Analysis of new home sales performance across the 50 top-selling master-planned communities, showing a 6.6% decline in sales pace as of end of June compared to first-half results.
RCLCO and Launch Development Finance Advisors investigate how the top 50 master-planned communities financed and constructed public infrastructure in 2024.
Analysis of new home sales trends across the 25 top-selling master-planned communities in Texas, showing resilient demand despite market headwinds.
Analysis of new home sales performance across Florida's 20 top-selling master-planned communities in 2024, assessing market resilience amid macroeconomic headwinds.
Analysis of new home sales performance across the 50 top-selling master-planned communities, showing 2% decline year-over-year amid market headwinds.
Analysis of top-performing master-planned communities in the first half of 2024, comparing their sales trajectory against the broader new home market.
Analysis of financing and public infrastructure construction methods across the 50 top-selling master-planned communities in 2023, examining home sales and development finance mechanisms.
Analysis of sales performance across the nation's top-selling master-planned communities, showing 14% year-over-year growth.
RCLCO and Launch Development Finance Advisors investigate how master-planned communities finance and construct public infrastructure through an analysis of top-selling MPCs.
Analysis of sales performance among the top 50 master-planned communities in the first half of 2023, showing 8% sales growth versus the prior-year period.
RCLCO and Launch Development Finance Advisors investigate how master-planned communities finance and construct public infrastructure, analyzing top-selling projects.
Analysis of top-performing master-planned communities in 2022, examining new home inventory constraints and developer growth amid supply chain challenges.
RCLCO's interactive map visualization tool displays sales performance data across the nation's top-selling master-planned communities over a decade-long period.
Analysis of top-performing master-planned communities in mid-2022, examining inventory constraints and developer growth factors.
Analysis of financing mechanisms and public infrastructure construction strategies used by top-performing master-planned communities, conducted in partnership with Launch Development Finance Advisors.
Analysis of top-performing master-planned communities in 2021, examining inventory constraints and supply chain impacts on developer growth.
Analysis of new home sales performance and market dynamics among leading master-planned communities during 2020.
Annual national survey identifying top-performing master-planned communities across U.S. states for 2019 and decade performance metrics.
Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. house hunters looked to relocate to a different metro area in the first quarter, up slightly from a year earlier. Florida, Las Vegas and Phoenix are the most popular destinations, with many movers chasing affordability and sunshine. New York, Seattle, Los Angeles and other expensive metros top…
Gerald Eve examines policy and financial mechanisms to accelerate residential development activity in the London market.
RICS UK Residential Survey for July 2025 reports a slight retreat in the housing market with previous recovery indicators becoming uncertain.
RICS survey indicates flat UK residential demand and sales in January 2025, with respondents anticipating market recovery in subsequent months.
RICS UK Residential Survey reveals continued slowdown in housing market activity with pressure on buyer demand, sales, and new listings.
RICS UK Residential Property Survey reports continued house price growth but reduced market momentum driven by multiple uncertainty factors in February.
RICS Residential Market Survey reports on recent UK housing market performance and price trends.
RICS survey tracking UK housing market conditions at year-end 2025, showing soft activity but improving confidence in sales and price expectations heading into 2026.
Knight Frank identifies the strongest performing residential markets globally based on demand, price growth, and investment activity.
Freddie Mac reports that U.S. economic growth in Q3 2024 was revised upward with a resilient labor market continuing into the forecast period.
Freddie Mac's outlook assesses U.S. economic momentum, housing market dynamics, and mortgage trends based on strong consumer spending and third-quarter growth.
Analysis using transaction-level data on rents, home prices, and mortgage payments to develop a new relative affordability measure and examine its effects on homebuyer behavior.
Analysis of first-time homebuyer trends, affordability challenges, and supply constraints affecting residential housing demand.
Freddie Mac analysis examining spending patterns between homeowners with locked mortgage rates and renters facing rising housing costs.
Freddie Mac estimates a housing shortage of 3.7 million units as of Q3 2024, analyzing persistent undersupply across rental and for-sale markets.
This piece was originally published on Forbes on June 8, 2026. Gen Z is coming of age in an economy where the traditional path to prosperity no longer works, and instead of giving up, they’re beginning to build new ones. For 70 years, the American Dream followed a predictable sequence: school, job, promotion,…
Property tax revenue collected by state and local governments rose 2.7% in Q1 2026 to $214.6 billion, outpacing overall state and local tax growth of 1.5%, with property taxes comprising 37.5% of total tax revenue and representing the largest share among all revenue sources. Year-over-year, property tax collections increased 4.6% from Q1 2025, while individual income tax rose 1.4%, corporate income tax increased 2.1%, and sales tax declined 0.3%.
Most Republicans and Democrats believe there should be federal policies in place to make housing more affordable, according to a recent Redfin survey. For instance, 85% of Democrats say there should be first-time buyer tax breaks, and so do 77% of Republicans. These survey results align with broad bipartisan…
State-level real GDP growth strengthened in the first quarter of 2026, with 46 states and the District of Columbia recording increases, while national real GDP rose 2.1% driven by downward import revisions and nonresidential investments. Washington led all states with 4.5% annualized growth followed by California at 3.7%, while South Dakota experienced the weakest performance with a 1.6% decline, with regional growth ranging from 0.2% in the Plains to 3.6% in the Far West.
Breakdown of the bipartisan 21st Century Road to Housing Act and its provisions for housing production and affordable housing.
John Burns Research and Consulting's 2026 Executive Housing Summit gathered 150 housing industry executives (27% private equity, 18% banks/lenders, 10% land developers, and others) in Laguna Beach to discuss market conditions and strategic positioning. The summit's eight key takeaways indicated housing executives maintain cautious outlooks with split sentiment through 2029, entitled land development has become the top risk-adjusted investment, equity raising has slowed while debt and land banking gain market share, entry-level buyers face affordability pressures while affluent segments show strong demand, rental policy tailwinds exist alongside technology scaling opportunities, and artificial intelligence requires multiyear data cleanup efforts before strategic adoption.
U.S. sawmill production fell in the first quarter of 2026, marking the second consecutive quarter of declining output, with production down 0.4% from the prior quarter though up 1.7% year-over-year, according to the Federal Reserve G.17 Industrial Production report. Sawmill full production capacity declined 6.0% year-over-year while the utilization rate rose to 71.8% on a four-quarter moving average, and employment in sawmill and wood preservation industries fell to roughly 82,800 workers, the lowest level since 2010 after twelve straight quarterly declines.
In May 2026, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 38 states with a net gain of 172,000 jobs nationally, while construction employment added 17,000 jobs with 23 states recording gains, though performance varied considerably across states. Over the 12-month period ending in May 2026, total nonfarm employment rose by 503,000 jobs nationally (0.3% gain), with construction employment increasing by 68,000 jobs (0.8% gain), though 19 states and D.C. experienced employment declines, and state unemployment rates ranged from 2.1% in South Dakota to 6.1% in D.C.
Home prices rose 0.3% month over month on a seasonally adjusted basis. Prices rose 2.5% on a year-over-year basis–the fastest growth rate in six months. On a local level, prices rose in 29 major metros month over month, with the biggest increases in Cleveland, Providence and New York. This is based on the Redfin…
More than half of homes are selling above asking price in Newark, San Francisco, San Jose and Nassau County, making them the most competitive markets in the nation. The AI boom is leading to bidding wars in the Bay Area, and in the Northeast, many metros are seller’s markets. The least competitive markets are in…
JLL's Big Six Residential Development Report for Summer 2025 analyzes residential development trends across six UK cities (Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, and Manchester), finding average annual price growth of 1.7% and rental growth of 2.1% across these markets, with Birmingham leading in both metrics and over 14,500 BTR units in its pipeline. Key findings include a 64% increase in BTR investment in H1 2025 versus the five-year H1 average, normalization of rental growth from 4.2% in December 2024 to 2.1% currently, removal of Scotland's temporary rent cap legislation on 1 April 2025, and development viability challenges from building safety regulations and planning restrictions impacting new home completions despite strong underlying demand for urban housing.
The NAHB analysis compares net new jobs created in 2024 (approximately 1.8 million) against housing permits issued in 2023 (1.51 million units) to assess whether housing construction is keeping pace with employment-driven demand, finding an overall jobs-to-permits ratio of 1.2 and elevated ratios of 1.84 for single-family permits and 2.61 for multifamily permits. The document identifies metropolitan areas with the highest housing supply pressures (Fairbanks, Morgantown, Battle Creek) and lowest pressures (Weirton, Wheeling, Elkhart), attributing imbalances to factors including construction costs, labor shortages, land availability, and regulatory barriers, while noting that multifamily development has played a more significant role in high-demand markets than single-family construction.
Nearly half of U.S. home sellers gave concessions to buyers in May, the highest May share in our records Concessions were most common in Nashville, the nation’s strongest buyer’s market, where three-quarters of sellers handed out concessions to attract buyers. They were least common in the Bay Area and other…
This JLL report covers Germany's housing market in the second half of 2025 across eight major cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, and Leipzig), analyzing rental and condominium price developments, construction activity, and supply-demand dynamics. Key findings include: rental growth in the Big-8 cities averaged +4.4 percent annually with significant variation by city (Hamburg +9.0 percent, Berlin +0.2 percent); condominium prices showed recovery with median growth of +2.9 percent in Munich and +5.3 percent in Dusseldorf; construction completions declined to preliminary lows of 251,900 units in 2024 and projected at 220,000–230,000 for 2025; and all analyzed cities face supply deficits ranging from 10 to 40 units per 10,000 inhabitants, with 2026 expected to mark the lowest completion point before recovery.
23 April 2026 There is real merit in making changes to the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) discount and Negative Gearing in Australia. Given we have a national housing crisis, this debate needs to include the State and Territory Governments, and it is essential to also bring Stamp Duty, Land Tax and the various Foreign…