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Home Builders Association Announces New Executive Vice President

Posted on February 10, 2017

The Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City, a trade association representing the home building industry, has announced the addition of Josh Clark as its new executive vice president. “We are very pleased to ann...

Building Business News for January 2017

Posted on January 31, 2017

Click here to read the January issue of the BBN features a 2016 year in review, Missouri and Kansas legislative updates and a look back at the HBA's history as it celebrates 80 years this year....

Lunch, Learn & Earn Credit: Means of Egress, IRC – Feb. 16

Posted on January 31, 2017

Kicking off its 2017 education series, the HBA will host a seminar on Means of Egress, IRC on Feb. 16, 2017, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the HBA. Instructor Russell Thornburg, a professional building code instructor, will...

Kansas Legislative Day

Posted on January 27, 2017

On Wednesday, Jan. 25, KCHBA and other members of the Kansas Building Industry Association (KBIA) gathered in Topeka for Kansas Legislative Day. The afternoon was spent visiting legislators from in and around Johnson County a...

2016 New Home Sales Up 12% Despite Weak December

Posted on January 26, 2017

Sales of newly built, single-family homes fell 10 percent on a monthly basis in December to a weak 536,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to estimates from the Census Bureau and HUD. This was a surprisingly low...

Top Concern for Builders Remains Unchanged in 2017

Posted on January 26, 2017

More than four out of five builders expect to face serious challenges regarding the cost and availability of labor in 2017, according to a recent survey of members that ran in the monthly NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index...

CANCELLED: Missouri Legislative Day

Posted on January 26, 2017

Be the Voice of the Housing Industry in Jeff City on March 18. The annual HBA Missouri Legislative Day in Jefferson City will be March 18. Participating in legislative day is one of the best ways that members can directly ...

2016 Marks Five Consecutive Years of Permit Growth (Dec. 2016)

Posted on January 24, 2017

The Kansas City metropolitan area ended 2016 with a 17 percent increase in single-family permits as compared to 2015, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City’s (HBA) monthly Residential Building Pe...

HBA Member Top Master Is Acquired by Clio Holdings

Posted on January 16, 2017

Clio Holdings, LLC of Birmingham, Mich., has acquired Top Master, Inc. of Kansas City, Kan., expanding its footprint of leading regional countertop fabrication businesses to eight states. Top Master, a portfolio company of...

BALA Forecasts Design Trends for 2017 and Beyond

Posted on January 16, 2017

There were 127 single-family, multifamily, remodeling and community projects honored at the 2016 Best in American Living Awards (BALA) ceremony Wednesday night at the NAHB International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla. Th...

More than 300 Homes on 2024 Spring Parade of Homes

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...

Fox4 Interview Ruder on KCHBA’s KCMO Proposal

“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 ...

KCHBA Announces Proposal to Reignite Housing Starts in KCMO

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...