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  • For Remodelers, Defining Value to Consumers Is Crucial
  • Seek and You Shall Find: the Secrets of Search Marketing
  • For Remodelers, Digital Marketing Is Do or Die
  • More Buyers Than Ever Are Hunting for Diversity
  • The High-End Millennials Move In–Cash at the Ready
  • Small Change: There’s Now Less Lot Than Ever
  • Is There a Right to Housing? Some Architects Think So
  • The Housing Problem
  • Big Cities: Flight Risk?
  • How to Make a Brand Grand
  • Unaffordable Housing: How Did We Get Here?
  • Does Greening a City Hasten Gentrification?
  • Housing Prices: Don’t Lower the Boom on Boomers
  • Turned-Off Housing Is Hard on Many
    Turned-Off Housing Is Hard on Many
  • Smaller Is Better, for Single-Family Detached Housing
  • Say Good-Bye to Single-Family Homes?
    Say Good-Bye to Single-Family Homes?
  • First-Time Buyers Want What, Exactly?
  • For Builders, There’s Big Business in the Backyard
  • Remodeling Homeowners Make Mistakes; Here Are Some of the Biggest
  • Pre-Fabs: Show Me the Way to Go Home?
  • Urban Options: Learning Lessons About Affordable Housing
  • Smart Tech More Money Maker Than Money Saver
  • Defining ‘City’ and ‘Suburb’–Finally
  • Boomers Talk About Good Moves but Really Want to Stay Put
  • Rate Question: Where Will Homeownership Be in 10 Years?
  • Five for Five: How to Get Great Reviews Online
  • Senior Moment: More Are Moving into Rentals
  • Remember: In a Tiny House, You Can’t Live Large
    Remember: In a Tiny House, You Can’t Live Large
  • Can Corporate Dollars Help Fix the Crisis in Affordable Housing?
  • Under-the-Radar but Buyer-Friendly Features
  • Progressive Cities Don’t Really Care About Affordable Housing
  • As New Homeowners Plant Roots, They’re Demanding Adaptable Homes
  • The Unappetizing Appeals of Pancake Development
  • In Many Houses, Space Goes to Waste
  • How Much of Home Buying Is an Educational Experience?
  • Not a Nostalgia Trip: 30 Years Ago, the Housing Market Was Healthier
  • Is the New Flight from Cities to Suburbs Really Happening?
  • Home Buyers Making a Flood of Risky Decisions
  • Oldies but Goodies?
  • Booming Now, Construction Could Fizzle Soon
  • Aging in Place: Multi-Gen Households Grow Up
  • Moving on–Finally
  • Thinking Small: Many Millennials Actually Prefer Tiny Towns
  • The Entry-Level New Home: How to Sell a Hard Sell
  • Remodeling Replaces Moving On for Many, Many Homeowners
  • Home Runs Customers May Be Unaware Of
    Home Runs Customers May Be Unaware Of
  • Well, Well, Well: Big Cities Top Small Ones
  • What Home Buyers Really Want
  • Emerging ‘Big’ Cities Are Smaller Than Ever
  • Big Idea: Tiny Homes Get a Resort of Their Own
  • Why Brownstones Are All the White-Hot Rage
  • Home Depot: In Roiling Seas, Retailing’s Safe Harbor?
  • Walkabout Is More Than a Fair Play
  • Why, Oh Why, Do Americans Now Want to Be Homeowners?
  • The One Percent Would Really Make a Difference Here
  • Millennials Really Are Starting to Change the Housing Market
  • More Buyers Than Ever Are Grabbing Homes Site Unseen
  • Gentrification Isn’t All Black and White
  • Same Old Story: Retirees Want to Stay Home
  • Riding a Wave, New Development Tags Along
  • Unmovable Feast: Americans Just Aren’t Going for It
  • Price Pressure: What Factors Drive Appreciation?
  • Despite Conventional Wisdom, Home Is Where Their Heart Is, Too
  • Baby Boomers Set to Weigh In–Again
  • New Old Thinking: Transportation Hubs Come of Age (Again)
  • Tiny Houses Can Be Big Trouble
  • Where Will the Geezers Go?
  • Office Construction Is on the Rise
  • For Many in Cities, Housing Is Stuck in the Middle Class
  • Rebuilding Infrastructure the Right Way
  • Gentrification Is a Genuinely Hard Problem
  • Whither Suburbia? Five Trends Are Shaping Things to Come
  • Turning a Tiny House into a Big Deal
    Turning a Tiny House into a Big Deal
  • Is Mars a Development Opportunity, Bar None?
  • America’s Sweetest Streets
  • Buying Guide: What American Homeowners Want
  • Smokin’ Hot? What Marijuana Means for the Construction Biz
  • Does Modular Construction Stand Up?
  • Commercial, Residential Forecasts from Dodge for 2017
  • Surprise, Surprise: Curbed Growth Means Less Affordability
  • Chicago Versus L.A.: Which Has Better Architecture, Public Art, Parks?
  • City Slickers: Boomers Want to Walk into Retirement
  • Quiz: Should You Buy a Fixer Upper?
  • Data Dive: Using It to Create Workable Strategies
  • Affordable Housing: Preserve to Conserve
  • The Country’s Biggest Building Material Dealers
  • Republicans Are More into Remodeling Than Democrats; How Come?
  • Increasingly, Size Matters Once More
  • Big Quiz About Tiny Houses
  • Is the Iot DOA?
  • Urban Paradise, Sure, but Burbs Are Poppin’, Too
  • Are Oldsters a Better Market for the IOT? Maybe
  • Student Housing Stair-Steps Upward
  • Baby, Please Don’t Drive My Car
  • Takes a Village? New Old Towns Can Be Sweet Spots
    Takes a Village? New Old Towns Can Be Sweet Spots
  • App-lied Knowledge: Calculate the Odds of a Project Getting Built
  • NAHB to Trump, Clinton: How About Housing?
  • Surge in Multifamily Is Starting to Recede–in Some Places
  • Budget-Minded Bath Renovations
    Budget-Minded Bath Renovations
  • Mulling Multi? Some Numbers Are in Your Favor
  • Did the Housing Crisis Really End? Many Don’t Think So
    Did the Housing Crisis Really End? Many Don’t Think So
  • The Dao of Living in a Tiny, Tiny Space
  • Many Suburbs Go to Sleep on Affordable Housing
  • What’s the Best Big City for First-Time Home Buyers?
  • As New York and London Cool, the Rich Head for Homes in Other Cities
  • High and Mighty: World’s Top Luxury Housing Markets
  • Rural Housing: Growth Market?
  • Should We Save Affordable Housing?
  • Short-Term Rentals: Ins and Outs of a New Marketplace
  • What the Health? Rankings by U.S. Counties
  • Automation Nation: Great Growth Ahead?
  • Future of Home Design–in Houston Anyway
  • Not Really a Moving Experience
  • Home Prices: Up, Up, and Away?
  • Where Are the Best Downtowns?
  • London Not Calling: Real Estate Values Continue to Drop
  • Will Retirees Continue to Boost the Rental Revival?
  • Rosy Outlook? Can You Really Do Green Building at Scale?
  • As Inventory Piles Up, High-End Housing Slows Down
  • 2016: Money Year for Remodeling?
  • Going Down? Here’s an Update
  • Affordable Markets Are Good for Business
  • Remodeling Projects Worth Hanging Onto
  • Are Tiny Houses Really a Big Deal? Maybe
  • Sell Block: Home Sellers Are Losing Their Grip
  • Commercial Space: Going Up in 2016
  • School Daze: When Is Good Bad?
  • What Urban Renaissance? Exurbia Is Booming Again!
  • Last Month’s 20 Sizzling-est Housing Markets in the U.S.
  • Trulia Guides You Home
  • Why Can’t Remodeling Scale?
  • Paint Grade: Fresh Coats Boost Sales
  • Business of Remodeling: Growth for Growth’s Sake
  • Getting Returns the Old Direct Mail Way
  • White Kitchens: Fading to Black?
  • State Fare: What Home Buyers Are Searching For
  • Distance Learning: How to Create Separation from Your Competitors
  • Meet the New Homeowner, Same as the Old Homeowner
  • Affordable Housing Might Be Answer to Churches’ Prayers
  • What’s Your Story? The Right One Can Mean More Revenue
  • Why Small Houses Aren’t a Big Deal
    Why Small Houses Aren’t a Big Deal
  • Is Prefab As Fabulous As They Say?
  • Single-Family Builders Are Doubling Down on Rentals
  • Home Building: More Isn’t Necessarily Merrier
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • How to Be Sociable on Social Media
  • For Many Boomers, Bigger Is Better
  • Climate Change: Dark Clouds for Investors?
    Climate Change: Dark Clouds for Investors?
  • Big Deal: More Than Ever, Homeownership Is About Large Companies
  • Adaptive Reuse Can Create Real Community
  • A-Frames Edging Toward the A-List Again
  • Millennials Heading for–Guess Where?–the Suburbs
  • Housing: Millennials Finally Getting a Move On
    Housing: Millennials Finally Getting a Move On
  • Making Sense of Modular Construction
  • For Home Buyers, Better Is Finally Smaller
  • Bigger Houses, Meet Diminishing Returns
  • Boomer Times in the For-Rental Market
  • Nearly Every Would-Be Home Buyer Now Starts Online
  • Can Tiny Homes Live Large?
  • Golf Course Communities: No Longer Up to Par
  • Surge in Single-Family Rentals Is the Real Deal
  • Don’t Deep Six Design for the 55-Plus Market
  • Most Millennials Want to Call a House a Home
  • Oldies but Goodies: Aging Apartment Buildings Are Affordable Answers to the Housing Crisis
  • Showing Their Age: Half of American Houses Were Built Before 1980
  • Will Boomers Blow Up the Housing Market?
  • Prefab Housing Has Been the Next Big Thing for a Long, Long Time
  • What’s the New Entry Level for Aging Customers?
  • Is the BBB Losing Its Value?
  • As the Middle Class Slips, the Housing Market Changes
  • Mobile Homes: Preserve, Preserve, Preserve!
  • Think ‘Big City’ and ‘Growth’ Still Go Together? Thing Again
  • The Millennial Moment Is Altering Home Design
  • What’s All the Shouting About? Do You Really Need to Renovate?
  • For a Remodeler, Leads Are Still Leading Indicators
  • The Shape of Urban Planning to Come
  • For Older Folks, a New Lease on Life
  • Think Millennials Are Speeding into the City? Not So Fast
    Think Millennials Are Speeding into the City? Not So Fast
  • Upscale Millennials Moving Down on the Farm
  • Data, Data Everywhere: New Database Defines Placemaking
  • Real Estate Agents: Who Are These People?
  • Prosperity? Distress? Location, Location, Location
  • Look to the Future–in Pittsburgh
  • Homeownership: Will These Kids Be All Right, Too?
  • All in the Family: Builders Cater to Multi-Gen Households
  • Are Appliances Cultural Phenomena?
  • Welcome to the Neighborhood: Affordable Housing Can Increase Property Values
  • Eight of 10 Retirees Stay in Their States
  • The Upper Middle Class Gets All the Breaks–and Won’t Admit It
  • Is Historic Preservation the Best Route to Affordable Housing?
  • Stuck: Millennials’ Missing Mobility a Downer for Housing
  • The Birth of the Cool: How AC Changed Everything
    The Birth of the Cool: How AC Changed Everything
  • No Sale: Boomers’ Senior Moment Has Yet to Arrive
  • Apartment Buildings: Thinking Small Would Be a Big Deal
  • The Shrinking Value of McMansions
  • What’s Behind the Persistent Scarcity of Housing for Sale?
  • Carried Away: Transit Systems Never More Important to Developers
  • Luxury Housing: Are Desirables About to Become Deplorables?
  • The Softer Side of Infrastructure
  • Biking and Walking Are Really Good for the Economy
  • Old Gold: Historic Preservation Can Stymie Overt Gentrification
  • Where Should People Be Quaking in Their Boots?
  • How Good Is Climate Change for Contractors?
  • Tiny Homes; Now Tiny Neighborhoods
  • Americans Are No Longer Migratory Birds
  • What’s In Store for Retail Construction?
  • Whither Real Estate in 2017?
  • Auto Zone: U.S. Building More Three-Car Garages Than One-Bedroom Apartments
  • Dodge’s Crystal Ball for 2017: Institutional, Industrial, Public Works
  • Container Homes: Should You Contain Yourself?
  • Dreaming of Being a Renter?
  • Suburbia About to Break Out Again
  • Opportunity Knocks: Boomers Unprepared to Age in Place
  • The Real-World Origins of Today’s Haunted House
  • Aging in Places: Making Houses and Towns Better for Oldsters
  • Thinking Small: Downsizing of Health-Care Facilities Is Big Trend
  • Are Starter Homes Now the Finish Line?
  • Home Sweet Mobile Home
  • Sprawl Out? Other Paths to Affordable Housing
  • Multi-Family’s Modern, Up-in-the-Air Edge
    Multi-Family’s Modern, Up-in-the-Air Edge
  • Preservation Might Be an Answer to Urban Housing Crises
  • Are Smart Homes a Dumb Move?
  • City Scape: Rising Up Against Centralized Urban Planning
  • Old Way to New Development
  • Grade-A Info: Owning in a Good School District Adds Up
  • What’s Your Story? Depends on Where You Live
  • The Luxury Bathroom Has Become the Luxury Bedroom
  • Many Boomerang Back, but Many Never Make It
  • Smart Attack: Cities Welcome the IOT
  • Is Swanky Housing for Urbanites About to Be Clobbered?
  • To Re-Make a Market, Home Builders Need to Build
  • Ups and Downs of a Five-Year Housing Forecast
  • Quiz, Kid: Is a Fixer-Upper Right for You?
  • NAR Scolding Builders More Than Ever
  • What Does $950 in Rent Get You?
  • Purposeful Prepping: How to Prepare for Homeownership
  • Matter of Degree? Maybe Not as Educated Millennials Still Not Buying Homes
  • Tiny Houses Are Too Big a Deal
  • In Reality, Are House Flippers Only Playing a Part?
  • Commercial Properties: Deal Flow to Slow
  • Digital Disruption Comes–Slowly–to Real Estate Business
  • What Price Is Right? Zillow Zestimates How to Do It
  • Wealth Effect in Housing Not What It Used to Be
  • That’s Their Story, and They’re Sticking to It
    That’s Their Story, and They’re Sticking to It
  • Still Busted; Generation X Struggles with Housing
  • Miami Vice Again? Condo Market Is Past Peak
  • Get Out! Boomers Scramble Away from Housing
  • Rules for Selling Remodeling Have Changed–Again
  • Sun Doesn’t Shine on Everybody: Solar’s Inequality Problem
  • Is the Sputtering Oil Industry Finally Going to Hurt Housing in Texas?
  • Salary Days: Money You Need to Buy a House in 27 Metro Markets
  • Study: LEE-ND Leads Away from Affordable Housing
  • If You Can’t Afford a House, Here’s Why
  • Trouble Ahead for Housing? Depends
  • Rental Housing: Prices Rage Higher
  • Way Up North, the Housing Market Is Going South
  • Still Climbing: Townhouse Starts Power Up
  • How Tweet It Is! Top Construction Accounts on Twitter
  • Mobile Population: More People Using Phones to Apartment Shop
  • High Times: Is Marijuana Pushing Up Housing Prices in Denver?
  • Chilling: Stephen King Knows Real Estate!
  • Can Developers Afford to Build Affordable Housing?
  • The Basics of Search Marketing for Small Contractors
  • Home Office Space Is Now a Must-Have Feature in New Homes
  • Remodelers and Marketing: First, Honor the Fundamentals
  • Yes, They Can! Modular Homes Can Be Lux, Too
  • Fertile Environments: the Baby Chaser Index
  • Outperforming with Inbound Marketing
  • Remodeling’s Resilience
  • Housing’s Demand Performance
    Housing’s Demand Performance
  • For Past Masters, the Future Is Now
  • Filtering Out Bad Reviews Is Often a Bad Idea
  • Marketers, Make Some Radio Waves!
  • Faced with Roadblocks, Cities Fight to Place Housing Responsibly
  • Whither Home Building in the New Decade
  • Finding Affordable Housing Is a Big Probelm for Many; Should We Once More Make a Federal Case of It?
  • For More People Than Ever, Smaller Is Better
  • Three Big Deals That Will Power the Remodeling Industry
  • Playing the Name Game Often Makes Sense
  • In Some Cities, Housing Can’t Keep Pace with Job Growth
  • In California, Some Home-Owning Commuters Are Playing the Long Game
  • Will Home Building Ever Fly High? Lessons from Southwest Airlines
  • Customer First: Maximizing Model Homes and Showrooms
  • Don’t Let Misconceptions About Marketing Rule Your Business
  • Boomers Creating Boom Time in the Rental Market
  • All In: Betting the House
  • Fifteen Features That Help Move Upscale Houses
  • You Can’t Track Back on Building Healthy Homes
  • Companies Used to Build Towns; Now They Just Take Them Over
  • The Building Blocks of Building Affordable Housing
  • Some Say Connected New Houses Are Now the Standard; Really?
  • Heard of Pre-Fab Houses? Probably; Heard of Plug-In Houses? Probably Not
  • No Room for Millennials When Boomers Come Calling?
  • Long-Declining Mid-Sized Cities Are Starting to Rebound
  • Optimist’s Club: Housing Will Fly High for Some Years to Come
  • Millennial March: Cities? Suburbs? Both?
  • House About That? Boomers and Millennials Are Defying Expectations
  • Where Is Housing Headed?
  • Fab Pre-Fab: Developers Are Putting Up Entire Apartment Buildings
  • The New American Dream Home
  • As Usual, Homeowners Much More Likely to Remodel Than Move
    As Usual, Homeowners Much More Likely to Remodel Than Move
  • Is Housing the Root of All Inequality?
  • Sorting It Out Means Moving Apart
  • Is the Housing Industry Ready for the Big Gray Wave?
  • Multi-Gen Households Are Growing Up
  • Will Old Suburbs Be a New Frontier?
  • Single-Family Rentals: More Than a Trend?
  • Urban Revival Is an Urban Myth; Most Growth Is Still in the Burbs
  • Sprawl in the Family: Suburbs Coming Back
  • Both Millennials and Boomers Have a Condo Attitude
  • Underground Swell: Cities with the Best Infrastructure
  • Boomers Finding Big Old Houses Harder to Deal
  • The Real Impact of Residential Remodeling
  • Do Cities Need a Survival Guide?
  • Can ‘Made to Last’ Be a Bad Thing?
  • Walk This Way: How Developers Are Responding to New Pedestrian Push
  • Lost in Space? Parking Writ Large!
  • Busy City Blocks Can Be Very Lonely Places
  • Unaffordable Housing and the Rise of Supercommuting
  • Marketers Should Ease Off the Millennial Mania
  • Will Demand for Single-Family Homes Ever Recover?
  • Sprawl In: Most Metro Areas Are Still Suburbanizing
  • Old Suburbs Are Slip Sliding Away
  • Making Your House Picture Perfect
  • Same Old Story: March from Snow Belt to Sunbelt Continues
  • Helping Homeowners Age in Place Is Good for Business
  • Is Historic Preservation Key to Urban Growth?
  • If We Don’t Have World’s Largest Houses, Who Does?
  • Is the Urban Tide Beginning to Recede?
  • Cities with the Oldest–and Newest–Homes
  • Missing in Action: Accessible Design for Those Coming of Age
  • Adaptive Reuse Proving to Be Useful
  • Housing for Seniors Still a Growth Market
  • Cookin’: How the Kitchen Became the Hottest Room in the House
  • Millennial Home Buyers Are Coming–Just Wait!
  • Housing Affordability Not Just an Urban Problem
  • How Big Is the World’s Infrastructure Problem? Try $49 Trillion Big
  • The Future of Residential Remodeling
  • Streetwise: 10 Streets That Say ‘America’
  • In D.C., an Historic Building Hosts a Hot, Hot Retailer
  • Not a New Problem, but Labor Shortages Now Acute
  • Curb Appealing: Seven Ways to Make a Good First Impression
  • Sweet Tweets: Ten of Twitter’s Best Accounts on Construction
  • Can Infrastructure Really Be ‘Permanent’?
  • Tiny House, Big Price; Guess Where?
  • Boom Time for Boomers: Still the Richest Demographic
  • Homeownership Isn’t a Matter of Degrees
  • Contain Yourself! This Housing Trend Is Here to Stay
  • Water, Water Everywhere: Keeping Student Housing Afloat
  • Arts Projects Jumping Off the Drawing Board
  • Despite the Hype, Density Is Not on the Rise
  • Big Builders Get Bigger in Big Markets
  • Is Modular Building Finally Coming of Age?
  • Pride of Place: ‘Typical’ Houses Depend on Where You Call Home
  • Build It, and They Will Rent!
  • When Will Start Homes Stop Lagging Behind?
  • Are Historic Preservation and Affordable Housing Incompatible?
  • Sweet Home, Chicago? Yes–and No
  • Are These Markets Once More About to Bubble Over?
  • Fifty Top Developers of Affordable Housing
  • Move Out! Where Americans Are Going in 2016
  • How to Rebuild Without Regentrifying
  • Immigrants Boost the Housing Industry. Period.
  • Saluting the Best Rental Markets for Military Families
  • Too True: Why More People Are Turning Into Long-Term Renters
  • Basic Training: Internet of Things FAQ, Smart Home Glossary
  • Numbers Game: Top 100 Builders for 2016
  • Regs Price Out How Many Would-Be Home Buyers?
  • What Might New York City Look Like in 2030?
  • Millennials Do Want to Be Homeowners, but Disappointment Looms
  • What Else Is New? Home Builders See Boom Ahead
  • Seer Buffet Doesn’t See a Housing Bubble
  • Bye-Bye Birdie? Golf Course Communities on Way Out
  • Home Prices in Frisco Fizzle for the First Time in Four Years
  • Rental Control: What Are the Best Markets for Buying Rental Properties?
  • Are You Dense? Costs of the New Urbanization
  • No, Not All Millennials Are Moving Downtown
  • What Constitutes a ‘Budget Buy’ in Country’s Most Expensive Markets?
    What Constitutes a ‘Budget Buy’ in Country’s Most Expensive Markets?
  • Who Are the Hot Home Buyers–Right Now?
  • Where Seconds Are First: Top Counties for Vacation Homes
  • Labor Pains: Non-Res Booms, but Help Is Hard to Find
  • Owning It: Millennials and Their Many Problems
  • Is Renting Now the American Dream?
  • Nine for Nine: Measures of Progress After the Housing Collapse
  • New Study: Remodeling’s High Impact
  • World of Difference? How Global Are Big Construction Firms?
  • Lucky Number: Construction Spending Up 13% YOY
  • China’s ‘Ghost Cities’: Hiding in Plain Sight?
  • In D.C., Tiny Houses Might Take a Village
  • Bay Area: Bye-Bye Millennials?
  • Softwood Lumber Agreement Once More Is Hard to Reach
  • Home Buyers: Older, Older, Older
  • Renters Live Where?
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