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October 06, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Baby boomers are accepted as the generation born from 1946-64. There were approximately 76 million births during these years, which was a robust 53% higher than the 19 years prior given overall population growth, the effects of the Great Depression ...
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baby boomersdemographics
October 06, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Every month, the Census Bureau publishes The Value of Construction Put in Place Survey, which is intended to provide monthly estimates of the total dollar value of construction work done in the United States. As it relates to the residential ...
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home improvementmacro housingsurvey
October 06, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
To many stock investors, the residential brokerage industry is viewed through the eyes of publicly-traded Realogy given its quarterly financial disclosures. With its brokerage business consistently ceding market share in recent years and the ...
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real estate services
September 22, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Last week, our firm celebrated its 10th Annual Housing Summit – an event that welcomes hundreds of our institutional investor clients and leading industry executives operating across all sectors tied to the housing market. Over the two-day ...
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macro housing
September 22, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Earlier this month, we discussed how labor constraints have resulted in construction cycle times becoming extended to the second longest level among expansion periods dating back to 1990, trailing only 2005 when industry ...
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homebuildingmacro housing
September 22, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
We are of the opinion that while young adults are waiting longer to get married and form families relative to prior generations, there still exists a strong pull to the suburbs and single-family homes once they reach this point of their life, ...
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apartmentsdemographics
September 08, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
As previously detailed, labor availability ranks among the biggest challenges for production builders in the current market, remarkably even with land availability, which is traditionally the most-cited hurdle ...
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homebuildinghousing starts
September 08, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS) is a widely-respected research center that contributes various thoughtful analyses around the housing market and demographics. In 2007, the organization introduced The Leading ...
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home improvementsurvey
August 25, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors released its estimate for July existing home closings. Adjusted for seasonality, transactions were up 2% year over year, leaving the trailing three-month average increase at a similar 2% level ...
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existing home salesmacro housing
August 25, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Over the last four years, our national home improvement proxy index has increased 6.0% annually, holding in a relatively tight range of 5.8-6.2%. To frame how dramatically the market has shifted from the depths of the recession, our index was ...
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home improvementsurvey
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