In a recent piece for the Statesman, Regional Director for Austin, Vaike O’Grady put Metrostudy data into context to understand what the housing demand in Austin means for builders and local economies. Metrostudy data reported that builders started construction on 4,119 houses from April through June, which was close to a ...

John McManus / Builder / July 26, 2019 Testing 1, 2, 3 … Is this thing on? When BUILDER and our team at builderonline.com does the job we set out to do, we challenge you and try to help you to be the best builder you can be. That may ...

John McManus / Builder / July 26, 2019 More with less. It’s a tantalizing notion. It takes the simple, deep, elegant soul of iconic architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “less is more” and shuffles the word deck–in a way that matters a lot. More with less–a business aphorism with a corner ...

Metrostudy’s Senior Director for the Central Region, Eugene James, recently spoke with the Atlanta Business Chronicle about building and home valuations in metro Atlanta’s Southside neighborhood. In particular, Eugene pointed out that, according to Metrostudy data, D.R. Horton, Atlanta’s largest homebuilder, sold nearly 1,500 homes in the Southside area, with ...

Metrostudy’s Regional Director for Austin, Vaike O’Grady, recently shared her local housing market expertise with KXAN, Austin’s NBC affiliate. In an article examining housing supply and demand in the market, Vaike helped put Metrostudy data into context, and identified which submarkets were the fastest growing within the greater Austin area. ...

Forbes According to Laurie Goodman, co-director of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute, millennials are indeed buying homes – under the right social and economic circumstances, marriage in particular. As of the end of 2015, 37% of people ages 25 to 34, or 7.6 million millennials, owned ...

John McManus / Builder / July 22, 2019 Headwinds–macroeconomic crosscurrents, global trade dislocation, and chronic supply constraints–are roiling the business environment and creating choppy and iffy market conditions for single-family players. In the weeks and months ahead, the smarter ones will shift their focus to outlier opportunities. For outliers, excellence–not average ...

Metrostudy’s Regional Director, Lawrence Dean, recently shared his regional expertise and analysis of Metrostudy data with Community Impact Newspaper.   When asked about housing in The Woodlands area of the market, Lawrence explained that there is not much new housing in The Woodlands, as it’s been very built out, but there ...

Senior Regional Director, Eugene James, recently shared his analysis on home sales in the metro Atlanta area with the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Eugene shared that price appreciation has finally settled back down to the Atlanta long-term average of 4%-6% annually, saying, “Just one year ago home prices were jumping up ...

John McManus / Builder / July 15, 2019 It’s almost never not natural hazard season these days. But, with Barry barreling into the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and sizzling summer winds shifting across the West Coast’s arid forests and grasslands, high season for disasters has opened with a ferocious punch. Core ...