BUILDER Market's complex financial and social challenges surface as opportunity for builders in the right place, product, and price-point. By John McManus Big Builder Graphics Team Slightly less than one of every two of us who's employed these days is "concerned, anxious or fearful about their current financial well-being," according to this study from MetLife that [...]
BUILDER Pardee launches a new line based on research into what Millennials want in a home. By Jennifer Goodman Courtesy Pardee HomesStrada Plan 2 Last year at IBS, attendees toured the BUILDER Responsive Home project, two adjacent houses that served as models for meeting the needs of Millennial home buyers. The homes, built by Pardee's Las [...]
Bozeman Daily Chronicle UNPACKING THE “CONSTRUCTION CRUNCH” IN MONTANA Home ownership remains near a 50-year low, but buyer demand is rising, says Realtor Robyn Erlenbrush in a column for the Bozman Daily Chronicle. However, low single-family home inventory, low labor supply, and rising home prices have put home ownership out of the reach of many, especially [...]
By Jon Coile March 28 Small condos with building amenities such as rooftop decks and dog-washing stations are increasing in value faster than large homes. (Benjamin C. Tankersley for The Washington Post) There’s a growing trend around the country of smaller houses gaining in price faster than homes with a greater amount of square footage. Even [...]
How practical are they, really? BY KAYLA MATTHEWS MAR 9, 2017, 1:14PM EST The August smart lockAugust Smart locks have become some of the most popular home tech products in the United States, along with other connected devices like security systems and home-access controls. NextMarket Research predicts that the smart lock market alone will grow to [...]
BUILDER So far, consumer home buyers are looking at interest rate increases and saying, 'meh,' we want the new home more. By John McManus Tech pioneer Kodak, headquartered in the upstate New York city of Rochester, employed 145,000 workers in 1988, to manufacture, distribute, and market its film and cameras. Today, there are more photographic images [...]
As smart devices continue to proliferate across the market, remodelers should start thinking about how they can take advantage By Laura McNulty It’s no secret that today’s homeowners, with more information at their fingertips than ever before, are more discerning—and perhaps more demanding—when it comes to their homes. They want products that perform well and look [...]
BUILDER We're seeing product manufacturers map builders earlier into their r&d workflows. That's a good thing. By John McManus Thomas Edison was quoted as saying, "what you need to invent, is an imagination and a pile of junk." An innovator of our present day, perhaps Google co-founder Sergey Brin, notes that "an invention discovers what is." [...]
BY MICHAEL NEAL on MARCH 14, 2017 • (0) According to the Federal Reserve Board’s fourth quarter of 2016 release of its Financial Accounts of the United States report, household holdings of real estate, measured on a not seasonally adjusted basis, totaled $23.102 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2016, $1.535 trillion higher than its level [...]
Kelley’s Market Trends: Western Montana Home Prices Comparing Flathead County’s home price trend to other counties' trends in Western Montana BY JIM KELLEY // MAR 8, 2017 // LATEST HEADLINES, NEWS & FEATURES This week let’s look at how Flathead County’s home price trend relates to other counties in Western Montana. At the peak of the [...]
