Sentences with phrase «u.s. residential housing»

Professor Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, and David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, discussed the overall health of the U.S. residential housing market and those factors that could impact the pace of recent home price increases during a live S&P Dow Jones Indices -LSB-...]

The U.S. Residential Housing Market: What's Next (panel discussion) David Blitzer, the Chairman of Standard & Poor's Index Committee started with the question «Is owning your own home still a part of the American dream?»

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For months, Buffett had been seeing general U.S. economic growth held back by a weak residential housing market.

The great expectations among many U.S. residential real estate watchers is that, at some point, growth will turn away from condos and toward single - family housing, the traditional choice of America's families, which accounts for a far larger share of the market.

The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for March new residential housing Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for March new residential housing housing starts.

The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for March new residential building permits.

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) A division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgage loans and sets construction standards.

Residential, owner - occupied homes are the most common forms of U.S. real estate, with more than 130 million residential housing units Residential, owner - occupied homes are the most common forms of U.S. real estate, with more than 130 million residential housing units residential housing units as of 2010.

Even though the Residential Lead - Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act (Title X) is a decade old, suits for the improper handling of lead - based painted surfaces are still being filed regularly by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Take Equity Residential, which was the largest apartment REIT in U.S. with 109,540 apartments, according to the Top 50 Owners list released in April by the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC).

A U.S. District Court found that a residential landlord's refusal to install a wheelchair ramp or lift at the entrance of an older apartment building didn't violate the federal Fair Housing Act.

He later chaired a U.S. think - tank called the Single Family Residential Rental Think Tank that studied the effect of foreclosures on single family homes on residential communities after the 2008 houResidential Rental Think Tank that studied the effect of foreclosures on single family homes on residential communities after the 2008 houresidential communities after the 2008 housing crash.

Another alternative lender active in L.A.'s commercial real estate space this year is North America Sekisui House (NASH Financing), which develops and sells planned communities in the U.S. and is a subsidiary of Japanese residential builder and developer Sekisui House.

This predictive analytics report and e-newsletter is part of a new collaboration between HouseCanary and RISMedia in an effort to bring real estate professionals timely and local housing data in thousands of regional and local markets across the U.S. Further, RISMedia provides its real estate news, information and business development insights to broker / owners, agents, service providers and other home - related professionals serving the U.S. residential real estate industry.

The major national energy bill, H.R. 4, that the U.S. House of Representatives passed in early August includes a number of carrots in the federal tax code to prod energy - efficiency measures out of commercial property owners and residential home developers.

While Chinese nationals have been purchasing both residential and commercial properties, the study shows more purchasing power going toward residential homes than commercial buildings, with $ 23 billion funneled into U.S. commercial real estate and a stunning $ 127 billion into housing.

The combination of U.S. landlords Colony American Homes and Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust brings together two real estate moguls whose companies are trying to become a bigger force in the young house - rental industry.

According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Residential Sales Report, the number of these permits were up 7.4 % over last year.

Factors such as residential vacancy rates, cap rates and annual rent increases were considered, in addition to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and CoreLogic.

The following is NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun's reaction to this morning's U.S. Commerce Department's October report on residential construction: «Housing starts soaring past the 1.3 million mark for the first time since 2007 is big and welcoming news...

(MCT)-- The rebound in the U.S. housing market accelerated in August as residential construction starts increased 2.3 percent and sales of existing homes rose 7.8 percent, according to new figures released Wednesday.

Informed sources have revealed that the U.S. Bureau of Unlimited Residential Nitpicking (BURN), after a study of carbon dioxide pollution in urban housing, is considering a ban on the sale of homes in which the current occupants have exhaled excessively, thus raising the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content to unacceptable levels.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez needs to take his efforts to «empower homebuyers» and develop legislation to protect them («Martinez Outlines Proposed HUD RESPA Reforms,» RealtorMag Online News, July 1) a step furtherby eliminating the loophole that allows lenders to waive the residential property disclosure when they market and sell foreclosed homes.

Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia have been awarded more than $ 1.3 million total by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help eliminate lead - based paint hazards in their residential housing.

In other positive housing news, the latest FNC Residential Price Index ™ (RPI) shows that U.S. home prices continue to steadily improve, climbing another 0.5 % in May in conjunction with continued improvement in housing market fundamentals.

The total volume of residential sales in 2007 was about $ 1.743 trillion (HUD, «U.S. Housing Market Conditions, 4th Quarter, 2007»).

By comparison, the National Association of Home Builders in the U.S. estimates that residential investment contributes about 5 % to U.S. GDP, while housing services add another 12 % to 13 %.