This multifaceted amenity building features a social great room, banquet facility, a detached fitness center, exterior aquatic zone, and outdoor activity areas for the Phase II of this active adult community. The Desert Contemporary character, inspired by the surrounding landscape, incorporated a material palette of stone, brick, metal, stucco, and terra cotta. Extensive glazing and voluminous ceilings provide filtered daylight with dramatic views to the outdoors. An inviting open floorplan with a focal stone fireplace and centrally located island act…

Residential construction loan volume reached a post-Great Recession high during the second quarter of 2022, as home building activity and new home sales slowed. Outstanding builder loan balances are rising as development debt is being held longer as new homes remain in inventory longer. Loan balances will decline in coming quarters as the development loan market becomes more costly and… Read More ›

This mixed-use development, including 27 urban apartment homes and 5,000 sf of ground-floor commercial space, is the final component of an 11-building series driven by a public/private partnership to create a true city center in place of disparate, outdated strip mall-style retail. It occupies prominent street frontage and delivers a beautiful, modern façade for public benefit that is well-proportioned with a modern architectural style congruent with the new downtown urban character. Flexible plan layouts offer different, open living arrangements, with…

On August 16, 2022 President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law.  Cited as “the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history by far,” it contains a number of initiatives aimed at putting the U.S. on a path to roughly 40 percent emissions reductions (below 2005) levels by 2030, among other goals. To do so, it creates and/or refines a number of clean building and clean energy efforts that are designed to influence how the new homes and communities of…

The total market share of non-site built single-family homes (modular and panelized) was at 2% of single-family completions in 2021, according to Census Bureau Survey of Construction data and NAHB analysis. This share has been steadily declining since early-2000s despite the high-level of interest for non-site built construction. In 2021, there were 24,000 total single-family units built using modular (10,000)… Read More ›

Overlooking a pond, this house takes advantage of the views. The owners were looking for a full house remodel to update and modernize its aesthetic, but wanted to minimize the changes to the floor plan and footprint. The stucco exterior was replaced with graceful lines covered in cedar shingles. The design team set out to incorporate some of the local vernacular, as well as add some interesting features to the exterior. The double gable is the distinguishing feature, and was…

The entry portal to apply for the Best in American Living Awards of 2022 is closing in two days. Give yourself a chance to be recognized by the National Association of Home Builders design awards program! Your design project of any price range, style, and location deserves to be seen. Make sure to send in your application now before time runs out! Application entry portal will close on September 9, 2022. Don’t miss it! Contact Kiera Gulley at kgulley@nahb.org or…

Despite the pandemic-triggered suburban flight and presumed shifts in preferences towards more spacious living, a rising share of new for-sale homes were built on smaller lots. According to the latest Survey of Construction (SOC), more than two thirds of new single-family detached homes sold in 2021 were built on lots smaller than one-fifth of an acre. This is the highest… Read More ›

It’s amazing how much our lives have changed since the start of the pandemic. It has singlehandedly destroyed every known normal that we have cultivated and refined in this lifetime. Though despite the tragic nature of the virus, there also exists silver linings, as the pandemic immersed us in circumstances that we otherwise might not have experienced. We were forced to find creative ways to occupy our time. Many adopted new hobbies or mastered old ones and families spent more…

The most recent Home Building Geography Index (HBGI) shows that home building activities have shifted to low-density and low-cost markets since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The market share for single-family constructions in large metro core and inner suburbs has declined from 44.5% to 41.6% from the 4th quarter of 2019 (pre-COVID), to the 2nd quarter of 2022. Housing… Read More ›