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- Legal Action Committee Awards Nearly $100,000 in Legal Support Grants at FLMAt its recent meeting during the NAHB Fall Leadership Meetings, the NAHB Legal Action Committee reviewed seven requests for Legal Action Fund assistance and recommended assistance in six.
- Affordability Challenges Push New Home Sales LowerSales of newly built single-family homes decreased 0.6% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 676,000, following a downwardly revised August estimate, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. The pace of new home sales was 5.3% lower than a year […]
- How Old Are America's Construction Workers?NAHB analysis takes a deeper look into the median ages of construction workers by state and by trade.
- Watch Video Highlights from 2026 Fall Leadership MeetingNAHB members who were unable to join us in Detroit for the 2026 Fall Leadership Meeting can watch some of the highlights on nahb.org.
- Multifamily Developers: How Are Rising Costs Impacting Your Business?In 2022, NAHB estimated regulation accounts for over 40% of the cost of a new multifamily development — a key data point in lobbying federal, state and local policymakers against policies that drive up the cost of new housing. This widely cited estimate is now outdated, so NAHB is conducting a survey to update it […]
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- Affordability Challenges Push New Home Sales LowerHigh mortgage rates and economic uncertainty continued to keep potential home buyers on the sidelines and constrain new home sales in September. New home sales declined from August and remained below year-ago levels, with year-to-date sales also lagging for 2025. Although builders have increasingly adjusted prices and offered incentives to attract buyers, elevated mortgage rates […]
- Which Construction Occupations Will See the Largest Job Gains Over the Next Decade?The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that the economy will add 5.9 million jobs from 2025 to 2035, with total employment increasing from 170.3 million to 176.2 million, a gain of 3.5%. This represents slower growth than the 10.9% recorded over the 2015-2025 decade. If employment growth were distributed evenly over the next […]
- Uptick for Non-Conventional Financing in 2025Nationwide, the share of non-conventional financing for new home sales accounted for 32.4% of the market, according to NAHB analysis of the 2025 Census Bureau Survey of Construction (SOC) data. This was 1.7 percentage points higher than the 2024 share of 30.7%. As in previous years, conventional financing dominated the market, accounting for 67.6% of […]
- A Quarter of Remodelers Started ADUs Over Past Twelve MonthsWhen asked if remodelers started a project involving an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) over the past twelve months, 24% indicated that they were building an addition for use as an ADU and 23% indicated that they were converting an existing space to an ADU, according to NAHB’s Remodeling Market Index (RMI). While the percentage shares […]
- Slabs Overtake Basements in the East North Central DivisionNearly three-quarters of new single-family homes started in 2025 were built on slab foundations, according to NAHB analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Construction (SOC). The share of homes built on slabs remained unchanged from the previous year at 73%, maintaining the wide gap between the use of slabs and the other types […]
