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Where Vacancies Are High
Vacancies are an essential measure of the state of the housing market. Vacant units represent the supply of homes that exceeds demand, and vacancies depress prices and discourage new construction. The...
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Housing Glut or Housing Shortage? America’s Got Both
Vacancies are one of the best measures of how the housing market is really doing. Vacant homes depress neighborhood home values and discourage new construction. During the housing bubble, new home...
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Where to Find Haunted Homes
For Halloween, we wanted to find out which metros are more likely to keep the Ghostbusters in business. However, it would be way too scary to go door to door since not all ghosts are as friendly as...
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Housing Glut or Housing Shortage? America’s Got Both
Vacancies are one of the best measures of how the housing market is really doing. Vacant homes depress neighborhood home values and discourage new construction. During the housing bubble, new home...
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Where to Find Haunted Homes
For Halloween, we wanted to find out which metros are more likely to keep the Ghostbusters in business. However, it would be way too scary to go door to door since not all ghosts are as friendly as...
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All Those Vacant Homes
The 2013 Q3 Census Homeownership and Vacancy survey shows that the vacancy rate is still above its pre-bubble level and remains unchanged from one year earlier. This might come as a surprise to house...
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Why is Construction Activity Still So Low?
New home construction starts and new home sales are recovering much more slowly than other housing indicators. In August, new home starts and new home sales were 40-50% below normal levels, in contrast...
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Are We Building Too Many Single-Family Homes?
What? Too much new single-family construction? It sounds hard to believe, with only 618,000 single-family housing starts in 2013, heading toward 622,000 in 2014 – far below the pre-bubble average of...
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