• What to expect next from The Builder’s Daily,John McManus

    What to expect next from The Builder’s Daily

    No one in the homebuilding business I know is sitting around waiting for things to get easier. That’s not how this works. Not in 2025. Not when mortgage rates, insurance shocks, permitting delays, capital costs and housing politics are all pulling in different directions. Not when builders are expec

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  • Is the real estate industry getting its antitrust enforcement wish? ,Brooklee Han

    Is the real estate industry getting its antitrust enforcement wish? 

    Many in the real estate industry lauded President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election as they anticipated his win would usher in a new wave of weaker antitrust scrutiny on an industry that had spent the past four years battling its fair share of antitrust suits.  However, these

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  • Pittsburgh, Cleveland top global metro affordability list,Jonathan Delozier

    Pittsburgh, Cleveland top global metro affordability list

    Pittsburgh and Cleveland rank as the world’s most affordable major housing markets, but a new report finds that not a single metro area among 95 studied actually qualifies as affordable. The annual Demographia International Housing Affordability report — released by Chapman University — measured aff

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