David Crowe

• Single-Family Housing Starts Hit an Eight-Year High

  17 Mar 2016Casey Flores

  Driven by growth in the Northeast, nationwide housing starts rose 5.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.178 million units in February, according…

• Home Builders Remain Confident in March

  15 Mar 2016Casey Flores

  Builder confidence in the market for newly-built, single-family homes was unchanged in March, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market…

• Housing Affordability Edges Up in Fourth Quarter

  19 Feb 2016Casey Flores

  Modest home price and interest rate decreases resulted in a slight increase in nationwide housing affordability in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the…

• NAHB’s Chief Economist David Crowe is Retiring

  22 Jan 2016Casey Flores

  The National Association of Home Builders announced that its chief economist David Crowe, will retire on March 18 of this year. Robert D. Dietz, NAHB’s…

• Thanks to Multifamily Production, Housing Starts Are Way Up

  17 Jul 2015Casey Flores

    Thanks to a steep jump in multifamily production, nationwide housing starts rose 9.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.174 million units in…

• Builder Confidence Rises Four Points in April

  16 Apr 2015Editorial Staff

  Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes in April rose four points to a level of 56, according to the National Association…

• Developers’ Multifamily Market Outlook Holds Steady in the Fourth Quarter

  27 Feb 2015Editorial Staff

  Not much has changed in the multifamily market from the third quarter of 2014 to the fourth. That’s according to the Multifamily Production Index (MPI),…

• NAHB: Remodelers Optimistic About Market

  16 Jan 2015Editorial Staff

  Things are looking up for remodelers. The National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) Remodeling Market Index (RMI) posted a record-high result of 60 in the…

• New Home Sales in West Rise Rapidly; Overall Sales Drop Slightly

  29 Dec 2014Editorial Staff

  Sales of newly built, single-family homes fell 1.6 percent in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 438,000 units, according to new data from…

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  NAHB: Upward Housing Trend to Continue in 2015

  16 Dec 2014Casey Flores

  The economic and housing outlook for 2015 is a positive one, continuing trends seen in 2014. That’s according to a webinar hosted by the National…