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A new report revealed the factors that were causing more builders to give a negative outlook on the housing market.

Despite a continuing positive sentiment on the overall housing market, builders’ concerns grew over rising lumber and construction material tariffs according to a report. How are these increased raw material prices impacting home values?

Builders remained confident about the strength of the housing market and the growth of consumer demand in the housing market according to the National Association of Home Builders ...

Builders are confident about the housing market’s expansion in 2018 on the back of rising demand for housing and tight supply of existing home inventory.

Builder confidence hit an eight-month high in November according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). Confidence in the market for newly-built single-family ...

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently released its NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report for July. Do homebuilders have confidence in the future market’s housing starts and buyer turnout, or will they stall out?

Two of the three HMI components posted losses in March. The component gauging current sales conditions fell three points to 58 while the component measuring buyer traffic dropped two points to 37. The gauge charting sales expectations in the next six months held steady at 59.