Home Building News

A PAIR of troubling US economic reports released on Tuesday showed a sharp uptick in wholesale prices and a heavy slump in new home construction are continuing to plague the world's largest economy.

Home building projects started in July fell 11 percent to the lowest annual rate in more than 17 years, while building permits tumbled 17.7 percent, the Commerce Department reported on Tuesday.

Wholesale prices shot up in July at the fastest year-on-year rate since 1981, while home builders cut back on construction as they worked through a glut of unsold homes, government data showed on Tuesday.

Construction of homes and apartments fell in July to the lowest level in more than 17 years, the government reported Tuesday.

There is no better opportunity for a long-term contribution to conservation than building your home with "green" choices.

Annual starts of new homes fell to the lowest level in more than 25 years at the end of the second quarter of 2008, according to a new industry report.

The Amish have long been famous for barn raisings. Now, they're becoming known for building houses for the non-Amish, often using ancient construction techniques.

Oakland High School will hold a ribbon cutting for its new building for brick-laying instruction at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, Principal Butch Vaughn announced.

A crew works Thursday on a home going up in the Lakes of Bailey Ranch addition near 94th Street North and 95th East Place in Owasso.

For years, Georgia had the most welcoming home-building industry in the Southeast: Anyone with a hammer qualified to construct a multiton, multistory house.

Fire will destroy most structures directly in its path, but there are actions you can take to increase your home's resistance to fire during the construction stage.

Building a home takes money no matter how you cut it. Natural Resources Canada, the federal government department that administers the EnerGuide rating system in Canada, is reminding Canadians to do their ...

Clark County home construction, as measured by building permits, remained weak in July, off 58 percent from the same month a year ago as builders wait out the overbuilt market.

Construction activity in the Twin Cities metro area continues to limp along at about half the pace of last year, according to data released Thursday by the Builders Association of the Twin Cities.

RISMEDIA, August 8, 2008- -The materials used to construct a house aren't rare-wood, steel, concrete, shingles, copper.

Suzanne McLamb,a Skagit Woman Build volunteer, brushes up her painting skills at a Skagit Habitat home to help prepare for the all-women Skagit Habitat project that is scheduled to begin in September.

The value of building permits for homes in Alberta continues to fall - by 19.6 per cent in June, Statistics Canada reported today.

New home construction has taken a hit in Romulus because of the overall state economic situation, but ideas about how to lure more residents into new and existing homes also seem to have hit a snag among city ...

July 30th, 2008 By: Amanda Allen Second Quarter Reports from a Grand Junction Title Company show Mesa County is experiencing major declines in real estate sales and home building.

Tallahassee's Simpler Solar Systems won an Aurora Award last weekend for the company's work creating one of the state's most energy-efficient homes.