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GBAHB's mission is to advocate for the home building industry by promoting professionalism and developing community through quality-built homes.

Exciting New Member Benefit: 50% Tuition Discount at Faulkner University!

At the recent Local Presidents meeting at Summer Board, we introduced an incredible new benefit for HBAA members, their full-time employees, and their children. Faulkner University, with campuses across Montgomery, Birmingham, Huntsville, and Mobile—as well as a range of online programs—is now offering a 50% tuition discount on eligible programs!

This exclusive opportunity is designed to make quality education more accessible to our members and their families. For full details, please see the attached flyer. If a member requires confirmation of at least one year of membership to qualify, we are happy to provide a confirmation letter.

Faulkner Tuition Discount for HBAA Members

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2024 Birmingham Builder Named to Hall of Fame

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Oct. 1, 2024)

A decorated Birmingham-area home builder added to her list of accolades Thursday with the announcement of 2024’s Alabama Building Industry Hall of Fame inductees. Alicia Huey, Owner and President of AGH Homes, secured her place in industry history as one of two nominees selected for induction into the exclusive group of professionals chosen by her peers within the Home Builders Association of Alabama (HBAA).

Huey’s induction follows on the heels of a productive tenure at the helm of the National Association of Home Builders, where she served as chairman in 2023. Prior to that national role, Huey also served in various capacities on the Executive Committee of the HBAA and led the Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders as president.

“I want to thank my fellow members and the leadership of the HBAA for selecting me to join the ranks of this esteemed group,” Huey said.

“Your faith in my work and my leadership at all levels has been indispensable in the fight for a secure, prosperous future for our housing industry.”

Huey went on to congratulate her fellow 2024 inductee, Jimmy Rutland of the Greater Montgomery Home Builders Association. Rutland is the president of Lowder New Homes and has served previously in multiple leadership roles within the HBAA, including as president in 2018.

Huey and Rutland will be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame during the HBAA Annual Convention in November in Destin, Florida.

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

Eye On Housing

Private Residential Construction Spending Rises in February 

Apr 01st 2025 : Private residential construction spending increased by in February rebounding from a dip in January The growth was largely driven by higher spending on single-family construction and residential improvements On a year-over-year basis the February report showed a gain indicating a modest growth in private residential construction spending during market uncertainties The monthly ...
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Soft Job Openings Estimate for Construction

Apr 01st 2025 : After a period of slowing associated with declines for some elements of the residential construction industry the count of open construction sector jobs remained lower than a year ago per the February Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey JOLTS The number of open jobs for the overall economy declined from million ...
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Affordability Pyramid Shows 94 Million Households Cannot Buy a $400,000 Home 

Mar 31st 2025 : NAHB recently released its Priced-Out Analysis highlighting the housing affordability challenge While previous posts discussed the impacts of rising home prices and interest rates on affordability this post focuses on the related U S housing affordability pyramid The pyramid reveals that of households million cannot afford a home while the estimated median ...
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Mortgage Rates Hold Steady After Early March Drop

Mar 27th 2025 : Mortgage rates dropped significantly at the start of March before stabilizing with the average -year fixed-rate mortgage settling at according to Freddie Mac This marks a -basis-point bps decline from February Meanwhile the -year fixed-rate mortgage fell by bps to The drop in long-term borrowing costs was driven by a -bps decline ...
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Property Tax Revenue Outpaces Other Sources in 2024

Mar 26th 2025 : Property tax revenue collected by state and local governments reached a new high in and continued to make up a bulk of tax revenue Total tax revenue for state and local governments also reached a high after falling in driven by higher revenue across all sources In tax revenue totaled trillion ...
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Consumer Expectations Fall Again

Mar 25th 2025 : Consumer confidence fell for the fourth straight month amid growing concerns about the economic outlook and policy uncertainties especially potential tariffs Uncertainties continue to weigh on consumer sentiment as consumer confidence dropped to a -year low and expectations for the future economy fell to a -year low The persistent decline in sentiment has raised recession ...
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