Sixty-two percent of ADU projects cost $150,000 or more, which is more than double the share in Q1 2019 (28%). According to NAHB’s Remodeling Input Price Index (RIPI), input costs for remodelers are ...

The share of new homes with decks inched upward, from an all-time low of 17.4% in 2024 to 17.8% in 2025, according to NAHB tabulation of data from the HUD/Census Bureau Survey of Construction (SOC).

Over the 12 months ending in September, total nonfarm employment increased by 496,000 jobs nationwide, representing a 0.3% gain. Job gains ranged from 400 in Hawaii to 154,300 in Texas. Collectively, ...

In 2025, approximately 30,000 single-family homes were built using modular (14,000) and panelized/pre-cut (16,000) construction methods, out of 975,000 completed single-family homes. It is worth ...

Multifamily starts, which include apartment buildings and condominiums, decreased 6.7% from August to September to an annualized 362,000 pace. The three-month moving average for multifamily ...

The goods component has a larger importance to the inputs to residential construction price index, representing around 60% of the total. On a monthly basis, the price of input goods to new residential ...

Rising mortgage rates, energy and material costs, and worsening labor and lot conditions have pushed builder sentiment to a 14-year low.

Labor shortages in the home building industry are becoming more widespread, according to recent results from the NAHB/Well Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) survey. The September 2026 HMI survey asked ...

Higher energy prices pushed inflation to a four-month high in September, keeping pressure on the Fed as inflation has remained above its 2% target for more than five years. Gasoline prices remained ...

Existing home sales rose after three months of declines as improved inventory gave buyers more negotiating power. As buyers wait for rate relief, homes are sitting on the market longer and for-sale ...

Over the first eight months of the year, the number of single-family permits issued nationwide reached 620,558. Compared with the same period in 2025, this represents a 2.6% decline from the August ...

A previous post examined the median age of the overall construction workforce and how it compares with workers in all industries. This analysis takes a closer look at workers in construction trades, ...