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Jason Knott | 02/08 09:20 AM, 0 Comments

The list of local housing markets that are improving keeps growing and growing. And it's good news for integrators. For February, the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) shows a total of 98 markets from 36 different states are improving. View this story

Rachel Cericola | 08/24 12:23 PM,

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is getting revved up for its 29th year of the New American Home - and home control will certainly be a part of it. Clare Controls has been selected by Architectural Electronics, Inc., to be included in the project. The annual event showcases industry construction technologies and products, and serves as the NAHB’s official “show home.” Architectural Electronics will use the ClareHome system to “configure, deploy, service and monitor from the cloud, while the system runs locally in the home.” The end-users, on… View this story

Jason Knott | 06/07 11:20 AM, 2 Comments

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and three other associations have filed suit against the EPA over the removal of an opt-out provision in the original lead paint abatement removal law. According to the NAHB, the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association, the Window and Door Manufacturers Association, and the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, EPA had originally included a clause that would allow homeowners without children under 6 years old or households without pregnant women to "opt out" of the rules for the handling and removal of… View this story

Jason Knott | 03/23 09:04 AM, 7 Comments

I am anxiously awaiting the upcoming data from the CEA/NAHB State of the Builder Market Technology Study. Hopefully it shows a different pattern than two recent surveys regarding builders and the technology needs of younger buyers. First, a study by Professional Builder asked builders what they believe first-time buyers will want in a new home. Unfortunately, the entire survey did not include technology options, even though it did have options like "walk-in closets," "ample garage space" and even obvious items like "appliances." (Would someone actually want to buy a home… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 03/10 02:08 PM, 0 Comments

At $9.4 billion, Los Angeles County, Calif. leads the country for counties spending the most money on remodeling, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Rounding out the top 5 list is Cook County in Illinois, Orange and San Diego counties in California, and Maricopa County in Arizona. The NAHB model uses data from the American Housing Survey - funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau - to estimate local remodeling based on home and home owner characteristics.… View this story

Jason Knott | 03/10 09:08 AM, 0 Comments

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Multifamily Production Index (MPI), which tracks developer sentiment about new construction on a scale of 1 to 100, is at 40.8 -- up more than 5 full points since the previous quarter and the highest number since the fourth quarter of 2006. The MPI component tracking developers' perception of market-rate rental properties is at 51.7 -- the first time this component of the index has been above 50 since the second quarter of 2007. The index and all of its components are scaled… View this story

Jason Knott | 03/03 09:20 AM, 0 Comments

"Murphy's Run," a 42-site home development in Cecil County, Md., is the 2,000th project nationwide to be certified by the NAHB Research Center' Green Building Standard. It is the 12th green development certified by the NAHB Research Center. In total, this milestone certification now represents more than 3,200 individual residential units and developments. "Murphy's run is a good example of the excellent work that so many builders and developers are doing in green building," says Bob Nielsen, chairman of the board of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and… View this story

Jason Knott | 01/14 09:00 AM, 0 Comments

With all the negativity surrounding new home construction, there are two pieces of recent data offered by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) that offer hope for integrators focusing on the retrofit housing market. 1. The average home in the United States is 36 years old, according to Michael Luzier, president of the NAHB Research Center. That means it was built back in 1975 before structured wiring, way before the Internet, before home theater and a myriad of other technologies. There are 130,000 existing homes in the U.S. 2.… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 05/04 04:12 AM, 3 Comments

At a time when there aren’t even enough instructors to train the tens of thousands of contractors that need lead-paint training, the EPA has decided to make its rules even stricter. The Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting rule applies to homes built before 1978. Originally, the onerous lead regulations included an opt-out provision that largely limited the regulation’s applicability to older homes that were the residences of pregnant women or children under six years old. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports that the agency now is eliminating the… View this story

Daryl Delano | 04/21 08:32 AM, 0 Comments

The U.S. housing market currently has many positive factors going for it. Among them:Inventory of Unsold Homes Continues Shrinking — The number of unsold new single-family homes on the market in February 2010 was 28 percent lower than in February 2009, while the number of existing homes for sale this February was down 5.5 percent from a year ago.Home Prices Stabilizing — They're lower than a year ago in some parts of the country and higher in other parts, but no longer in "'free fall" anywhere.Mortgage Interest Rates Remain Low… View this story