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

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Strong Job Market in September

Oct 04th 2024 : The September jobs report indicates that the U S labor market remains strong Job growth accelerated and the unemployment rate fell to a three-month low of Meanwhile job growth for the previous two months July and August was upwardly revised In September wage growth accelerated for the second straight month Wages grew at a ...
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Parking Garages for New Homes 2023

Oct 04th 2024 : In of newly completed single-family homes featured two-car garages according to NAHB s analysis of the Census s Survey of Construction data This was the most common parking option across all Census divisions By Census division South Atlantic had the highest share of two-car garages at Three or more car garages were most popular in ...
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State of Local Homeownership Prior to the Election

Oct 03rd 2024 : With housing being a key issue for the election cycle it is worth analyzing distinct characteristics as well as similarities that housing markets in congressional districts share The differences start with a substantial variation in homeownership rates across congressional districts While the American Community Survey ACS reports that close to two thirds of ...
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Two-Story Foyer Trend Declines in 2023

Oct 03rd 2024 : In a quarter of new homes were built with a two-story foyer down slightly from in according to data obtained from the Census Bureau s Survey of Construction SOC and tabulated by NAHB The market share of two-story foyers has been generally trending downward over the past seven years with most new single-family ...
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Refinancing Activity Continues to Climb in September

Oct 02nd 2024 : The Market Composite Index a measure of mortgage loan application volume by the Mortgage Bankers Association s MBA weekly survey rose month-over-month on a seasonally adjusted SA basis driven primarily by a surge in refinancing activity Compared to September the index increased by The Market Composite Index which includes the Purchase and Refinance ...
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Private Residential Construction Spending Falls for Third Straight Month

Oct 01st 2024 : Private residential construction spending fell in August according to the Census Construction Spending data Nevertheless it remained higher compared to a year ago The monthly decline in total private construction spending for August was largely due to reduced spending on single-family and multifamily construction Spending on single-family construction fell by in August ...
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