Welcome to the Athens Area Home Builders Association

The Athens Area Home Builders Association is a non-profit professional trade association made up of member companies, representing residential and light commercial builders, subcontractors, suppliers, and many other service providers to the building industry throughout Athens-Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Stephens, and Walton Counties. Together we are the foundation for the local home-building industry - building pride in our community through interaction, commitment, professionalism, education, community service, and environmental responsibility.

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Single-Family Builders: How Does Your Compensation Measure Up?
Discover how other single-family home builders are compensating their employees with pay and benefits.
Reminder: Register for May 9 Virtual Townhall Meetings
NAHB’s Senior Officers will host a series of regional Virtual Townhall Meetings on Thursday, May 9. The meetings are an important opportunity for members and HBA leaders to provide feedback to NAHB leadership on emerging issues in their local communities.
3 Smart Ways to Promote National Home Remodeling Month
Throughout May, NAHB is celebrating National Home Remodeling Month, sponsored by Westlake Royal Building Products. NAHB’s National Home Remodeling Month toolkit provides remodelers with the resources necessary to create local media campaigns that promote the industry.
NAHB Monthly Update Now Available
To help members articulate key housing priorities, the Monthly Update provides the latest messaging framework for the Federation.
Podcast: Biden Administration Is Making it Harder to Finance Homes
In this week's podcast episode, NAHB CEO Jim Tobin and COO Paul Lopez discuss two new rules from HUD that add more layers of uncertainty to the use of federal mortgage programs for new homes.

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Eye On Housing

Residential Building Wages Continued to Rise
In March, residential building workers’ wages continued to grow but at a relatively slower pace. After an acceleration of a 6.2% increase in the previous month, the year-over-year (YOY) growth rate for residential building worker wages slowed to 5.1% in March. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, average hourly earnings (AHE) for...
Home Buyers’ Ideal Community
NAHB’s latest study on consumer preferences—What Home Buyers Really Want Study*— asked about the features and amenities buyers want in the home, but also about the type of community where they would like to live. The question is important because the home that successfully appeals to buyers doesn’t exist in a vacuum—it sits inside a...
Labor Market Softens in April
Job growth slowed in April, and the unemployment rate increased to 3.9%, suggesting a cooling labor market after a strong start to the year. Additionally, wage growth continued to slow. In April, wages grew at a 3.9% year-over-year (YOY) growth rate, down 0.7 percentage points from a year ago. It marks the lowest YOY wage...
States with Highest and Fastest Rising Construction Wages, 2024
Reflecting persistent long-term labor challenges, wages in construction continue to rise, often outpacing and exceeding typical earnings in other industries. Not seasonally adjusted (NSA) average hourly earnings (AHE) in construction increased 5% since a year ago and approached the $38 mark in March 2024, according to the latest Current Employment Statistics (CES) report from the...
Fed on Hold with Limited Inflation Progress
The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee held constant the federal funds rate constant at a top target of 5.5% at the conclusion of its April-May meeting. In its statement, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) noted: Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains have remained strong,...