MetroNews
MAY 17 2013
Growing Housing Means Growing Local Governments?
In a discussion last week with a friend who builds hospitals in Florida, she shared a story about a slow permitting process significantly delaying the progress of the latest in a chain of ambulatory health care facilities. They had three of the four permits required to proceed but the last one was anchoring them at [...] » Read More
MAY 17 2013
Metrostudy Q1 2013 Housing Starts – Top Rankings & Key Points
Metrostudy Q1 2013 Housing Starts Top Rankings In the first quarter of 2013, total new home starts rose to 59,387 which is a 4% increase over total new home starts in the previous quarter and a 40% increase over quarterly new home starts one year earlier. An 8% improvement in annualized growth from the prior period demonstrates [...] » Read More
MAY 17 2013
National Data on Housing Starts: The Devil is in the Details
One of the points I wanted to get across in this morning’s interview on The Hays Advantage (Bloomberg Radio) was that there is some confusion as to what the government’s latest numbers on housing starts really mean. According to Commerce, single-family starts fell 2.1%, plus or minus 7.8%, …or plus or minus 4.8%, depending upon [...] » Read More
OtherNews
MAY 17 2013
Is the Bay area experiencing a housing boom?
Some home builders say they're seeing growth but admit it's not at the level they say in 2007 and 2008. » Read More
MAY 9 2013
Car dealer ties pickup sales to housing market resurgence
The largest car dealer in the nation is using pickup truck sales to gauge the resurgence in the metro area housing market. Florida-based AutoNation has 12 stores in the Atlanta area. CEO Mike Jackson, a member of Atlanta's Federal Reserve Board, spoke exclusively to Channel 2's Jim Strickland on a recent trip to Atlanta. Jackson said he can feel the turnaround in the economy when he ... » Read More
MAY 7 2013
Orlando housing starts up 29 percent
Housing starts in Metropolitan Orlando were up 29 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, with projections for activity to slow in key locations, according to a report released Tuesday by Metrostudy. » Read More
MAY 7 2013
Orlando housing starts up 29% from year ago
Housing starts in Metropolitan Orlando were up 29 percent during the first quarter of the year, though growth is expected to slow in key locations, according to a report released Tuesday by Metrostudy Inc. » Read More
MAY 3 2013
South Florida housing starts rise in first quarter
Builders, buyers more confident in recovering market South Florida home construction gained momentum in the first quarter as builders raced to keep up with increasing demand. » Read More
