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The HBA’s education schedule for Fall 2013 is available. Don’t miss the first scheduled event on Friday, September 6 where you will hear two nationally-recognized speakers talk about negotiation and marketing. The fall ed...
Nationally-Recognized Speakers Will Lead Classes on Marketing and Negotiation Skills – Friday, September 6
The HBA’s Sales and Marketing Council (SMC) will host a special education event at the Fall Home Show, Friday, Se...
In cities across the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area, housing production continues to climb in 2013 with the second highest month this year, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) mo...
New home construction continues a steady upward trend that began in January 2012. Each consecutive month has shown improved numbers over the previous year for eighteen months. In addition, eight of the past twelve months have...
Builders broke the 400 permit mark in April and missed that mark in May 2013. However, statistics still reflect the best May since 2007 with 337 single family permits. This brings the year to date total to 1,613 which is a 33...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued an opinion that affects the conditions which governments try to impose on developers and builders in order to get a permit. The case is Koontz v. St. James River Water Management Distric...
July 17-19, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Cost $395 (members) – $425 (non-members) This 3-day, professional-level course is designed for specialists in new home sales. Gain a broad understanding of the home building business, ...
July 25, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Cost $20 (members) – $25 (non-members) Who said it’s what’s on the inside that counts? Come learn from the area’s top landscape architects about the latest and greatest trends in s...
The Spring Parade of Homes, open April 27 through May 12, offers the opportunity to see one of the largest and most impressive displays of new homes in the country. Sponsored by Mike Bryant Heating & Cooling, the spring p...
“The end result that we’ve gotten with the code having been adopted in the way that it was and our efforts to comply with it is a historic reduction in new housing starts in Kansas City, Missouri,” KCHBA Executive Vice ...
According to A Vision for Housing: Solutions for Kansas City, the city has a goal of creating 10,000 new, low-income housing units by 2027. Yet housing starts have dropped significantly in KCMO, while they are on the rise mos...
