April 26, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Mirroring the uneven economic recovery, the housing market is expected to move in a slow, gradual upward path in 2012, while encountering its share of speed bumps along the road, according to econ…
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April 26, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) today announced that W. Dean Henry, a real estate executive from Foster City, Calif., has been appointed chairman of NAHB’s Multifamily Leadershi…
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April 26, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — CORRECTION: 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…
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April 24, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 24, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Sales of newly built, single-family homes declined 7.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 328,000 units in March from an upwardly revised, robust pace of 353,000 units in February, ac…
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April 24, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 24, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) will host its Semi-Annual Construction Forecast Conference on Wednesday, April 25, in a two-hour webinar from 2:00-4:00 p.m. featuring three renown…
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April 19, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 19, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has signed a memorandum of understanding with a major Chinese trade association that will bring a large number of additional manufacturers and prod…
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April 18, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 18, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) today called on Congress to simplify the tax code as part of a comprehensive tax reform effort in order to help small businesses to continue serve …
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April 17, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 17, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Single-family housing production held virtually unchanged in March as a double-digit decline in the more volatile multifamily sector brought combined nationwide starts activity down 5.8 percent to…
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April 17, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 17, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes declined for the first time in seven months this April, sliding three notches to 25 on the National Association of Home Builde…
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April 17, 2012 Posted by NAHB
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 17, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — A diverse group of 33 lenders, housing professionals, consumer advocates and civil rights organizations came together today to call on the CFPB to issue broadly defined and clear Qualified Mortgag…
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