Sentences with phrase «home building boom»

In 2005, Kuepfer decided to look to the U.S., which was then in the midst of an unprecedented home building boom.

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The home had been built at the height of a Fort McMurray boom, when overworked contractors verily threw such buildings up, too busy for rules.

Left behind during the dot - com boom, East Palo Alto began seeing gentrification in 2000, as developers built homes and employees of Facebook and Google began moving in.

Record low inventory is being driven by baby boomers staying put and the lack of home building thanks to hardcore NIMBYism.

Across the railroad tracks, over the river, and up on a hill are new homes built during the housing boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

«The millions of homes built during the boom have created a drag on the current market as the owners surrender them to foreclosure.

ShareThe Houston and overall Texas economy is booming so much that many buyers are considering building their own home.

Home, garden, antique, and design items brought from all over Mexico (and beyond) by owner Anne Harte have helped fuel the high - end building boom in San... Read More

The historic location was built in the 1880s during an economic boom and currently is a hotspot for Hollywood directors; Quincy Jones filmed Michael Jackson's Thriller in a local home.

«It's capturing a huge number of homes that were built in the boom.

In the region of 220,000 new homes were built between 2006 - 2008 alone, at a time when the peak and gradual collapse of the house - building boom led to the construction of homes which are likely to be extremely leaky, inaccurately insulated and non-compliant with minimum standards.

Increasing numbers of people are outfitting their homes with sustainable technology, and the resulting boom in sustainable building is driving new levels of architectural innovation.

Due to the ill - considered productivity of the house building industry towards the tail end of the economic boom, Ireland is now saddled with hundreds of thousands of vacant homes in various states of completion.

During the housing boom, thousands of homes were built with cheap drywall imported from China.

The reasons for this boom are multifold: MHI reports that manufactured homes can run 20 percent to 50 percent less per square foot than comparable site - built homes; 60 percent of them are now installed on private property instead of in so - called mobile home parks (25 states have passed laws making it illegal to discriminate against putting manufactured homes in site - built neighborhoods); and they can be erected in five to eight weeks.

At the same time, the construction boom has led to a shortage of skilled workers needed to execute Katerra's aggressive home building plans.

As the baby boomers downsize, they will continue to help their children buy a first home and with apparently quite a few years of cheap money ahead, the buyers will be able to build decent equity for several years ahead.

There is a building boom in the new - home market.

«Any excess housing that may have been built during the boom years has been absorbed, and a stronger supply response is going to be needed to keep pace with demand — particularly for moderately - priced homes.»

If I can do that for only $ 6000 - $ 7000 because most of that work is already done and all I have to do is run up some drywall and put in a ceiling fan and maybe build a closet, not only did I add 300 - 400 square feet of space, but I did it very cheaply and I could add a bedroom or a bathroom or both to the home and boom, I've just created my extra bedroom.

But when a building boom hit, he turned to home warranties to change his game.

«The boomer generation is currently experiencing a transition to their next phase of life, so the home building and finance industries should commit to better understand the wants and needs of this generation to offer the best possible solutions for them,» Peskin says.

Unless we have another tech boom or foreign buyer boom, San Francisco home prices will likely fall a lot more in 2018 than in 2017 as the unsold inventory of homes for sale builds up and price expectations fall.

Millennial owners are the most likely to own homes built in 2005 or after (23 percent versus 16 percent for Generation X and 6 percent for Baby Boomers).

The older the homeowner, the more likely they live in an older home — with 31 percent of Baby Boomers living in homes built in 1960 or earlier.

To some extent, all those course closures are simply a market correction: The golf industry went through a building boom in the 1990s and early 2000s, driven by developers who used golf courses as amenities to help sell homes.

When the baby boomers moved through the real estate market, they built more homes to accommodate their bigger numbers.

With so many homes being built in the most recent housing boom... a large spacious kitchen and flowing rooms in a floor plan are the norm.

With the baby boomers beginning to retire and build homes that can «age» with them, I think there will be an uptick in h / c ready homes.

After World War II, the home market booms and many families build a small house of their own.