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Home Builders' Focus on Affordable Homes 'Energizes' Richmond Market

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Thu, 11/05/2020 - 10:11. Richmond-based builder Center Creek Homes only launched two years ago, but is making waves in the city by building low-income housing. One of these homes will be priced at $180,000 for income-qualifying buyers while the other four will be priced at about $260,000. cbroderick.

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Andrés Duany on New Urbanism’s Legacy and a Solution for Affordable Housing

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Sun, 07/26/2020 - 06:00. This is a longer version of an interview that appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of Pro Builder. People hire DPZ because we can get permits to build the best private realm inside homes and the best public realm. today and a major cause is the government making it difficult to get building permits.

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Household Energy Usage Increases Due to Pandemic, Energy Mortgages May Help

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Thu, 09/10/2020 - 10:00. Although any new purchases or upgrades may cause some to pause based on their current economic situation, energy or “green” mortgages can offer home owners an opportunity to purchase homes that utilize these technologies through mortgages that permit higher debt-to-income ratio requirements. cbroderick.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

Maryland law sets mandatory recycling rates for state government and local jurisdictions, as well as a voluntary statewide recycling goal of 60% by 2020. Senate Bill 370 (passed) requires that each county recycling plan address the collection and recycling of recyclable materials from specified large office buildings by October 1, 2020.

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#102:  The State of Residential Construction

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higher than May 2020). Census Bureau reports that in the first five months of 2021 a total of 1,933 new building permits were issued in New Hampshire, 80% of them for single family homes. The current rate under RSA 77:1 is 5%, levied on all interest and dividend income above $2,400 in any year.

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Housing Outlook: Is This a Recession … or Not?

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In September, the HMI stood at 46, after peaking at 90 in late 2020, and it was 83 in January of this year —for the HMI, anything below 50 indicates poor market conditions. Another important indicator of industry health is the rate of single-family housing starts, which increased by 13% in both 2020 and 2021. Census Bureau.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. The builder reported 1,323 closings in 2020, raising its ranking among Pro Builder’s 2021 Housing Giants to No. See past Builder of the Year winners. and Outward.