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The Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders strives to protect the American Dream in Central Alabama for housing opportunities for all, while working to promote professional success for its members who build, remodel, and maintain communities, create jobs and improve our local economy.

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Talk of Alabama | Greater Bham Assoc. of Homebuilders 2023

by Crystal Gray | ABC33/40 | February 23rd 2023

Builders, at times, get painted in a bad light, but we are good guys. The Greater Birmingham Association of Homebuilder's helps fight for the American Dream and make sure you have a choice in building your dream home.

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Alabama Builder Elected Chairman of NAHB

By Elizabeth Thompson, National Association of Home Builders Feb 2, 2024

The Home Builders Association of Alabama is proud to announce the installation of Alicia Huey of Birmingham as the 2023 Chairman for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)!

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Additional Mentions

Huey named chairman of the National Association of Home Builders - Birmingham Business Journal

Eye On Housing

Home Prices Continue to Rise in September

Nov 28th 2023 : National home prices continued to increase in September Despite rising mortgage rates limited inventory and solid but weakened demand provided solid support for home prices Locally all of metro areas had positive home price appreciation in September The S amp P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U S National Home Price Index reported by S amp P Dow Jones Indices rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth ...
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Absorption of New Multifamily Units Rises as Completions Near 100K in Second Quarter of 2023

Nov 28th 2023 : The most recent release of the Census Bureaus Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units SOMA reported that of the unfurnished unsubsidized apartments completed in the second quarter of were absorbed into the market in the first three months following completion of condominiums completed in the second quarter were absorbed within the first three ...
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No Change for Multifamily Missing Middle Construction

Nov 28th 2023 : The missing middle construction sector includes development of medium-density housing such as townhouses duplexes and other small multifamily properties The multifamily segment of the missing middle apartments in - to -unit properties has disappointed since the Great Recession For the third quarter of there were just - to -unit housing unit construction starts This is down from a year prior ...
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New Home Sales Weaken in October

Nov 27th 2023 : Elevated mortgage rates that averaged in October per Freddie Mac the highest rate since depressed buyer demand and pushed down new home sales in October Sales of newly built single-family homes in October fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate following a notable downward revision in September according to newly released data by the U S Department ...
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Multifamily Built-for-Rent Remains Elevated

Nov 27th 2023 : According to NAHB analysis of quarterly Census data the count of multifamily for-rent housing starts remained elevated during the third quarter of For the quarter multifamily residences started construction Of this total were built-for-rent The market share of rental units of multifamily construction starts was near an all-time high of for the third quarter as the ...
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Home Size Trending Lower

Nov 22nd 2023 : An expected impact of the virus crisis was a need for more residential space as people use homes for more purposes including work Home size correspondingly increased in as interest rates reached historic lows However as interest rates increased in and and housing affordability worsened the demand for home size has trended lower According to third quarter ...
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