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Mortgage Rates Tick Up as LTV Ratio Ticks Down

Posted on November 4, 2016

Interest rates on conventional mortgages ticked up over the month of September 2016, according to data released by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). However, the increase in mortgage rates reflected a rise in the eff...

NAHB Challenges Flawed WOTUS Rule

Posted on November 4, 2016

NAHB and its industry partners today presented their first brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that challenges the Waters of the U.S. rule. “The Sixth Circuit issued a nationwide stay of the Wate...

Strong Showing for 55+ Housing Market

Posted on November 4, 2016

Builders report that the single-family 55+ housing market is holding strong in the third quarter, according to the NAHB 55+ Housing Market Index. The index had a reading of 59, two points above the previous quarter and the 10...

Distribute This Guide for Better Building Code Votes

Posted on November 4, 2016

The dust is clearing after a week-long marathon of building and energy code votes in Kansas City, Mo., when building officials, product manufacturers, civil engineers and even a few home builders testified on nearly 2,000...

EPA to Begin Surveying Remodelers, Contractors About Lead

Posted on November 4, 2016

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon begin surveying a select group of remodelers and other contractors, as well as property managers and lessors of public and commercial buildings regarding lead-safe work ...

Composition of New Home Sales Financing Shifts in Third Quarter

Posted on November 2, 2016

NAHB analysis of the most recent Census estimates concerning sources of financing for new home sales reveals that the composition of mortgages by financing method shifted over the third quarter of 2016. The share of new home ...

Homeownership Rate Edges Up

Posted on November 2, 2016

According to the Census Bureau’s Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS), the U.S. homeownership rate rose to 63.5 percent in the third quarter 2016, reversing the downward trend of homeownership rate nationwide. It is 60 basis points...

Vote for Housing on Nov. 8

Posted on November 1, 2016

The importance of the General Election on November 8 cannot be overstated. Below is a list of candidates that have received campaign support from the HBA-PAC during the election process. When you visit the polls, make sure y...

Clayton, a Berkshire Hathaway Subsidiary, Acquires Largest Homebuilder in Kansas City

Posted on November 1, 2016

Clayton Properties, the site-built division of the Clayton home building group, has acquired its third home builder in the past year, Summit Custom Homes of Kansas City, Mo. On Oct. 31, Clayton Properties acquired all of t...

NAHB Endorses Senator Roy Blunt

Posted on November 1, 2016

HBA members and friends gathered on Oct. 26 to announce NAHB’s endorsement of Missouri Senator Roy Blunt. Despite a long history of not endorsing congressional candidates, NAHB broke with tradition this year to recog...

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...

Building a Pipeline to Ease the Labor Shortage

For several years, the KCHBA has been working with area schools to provide students with the opportunities available to them in the residential construction industry. The KCHBA’s Workforce Development Committee hosts se...