Rapidly rising hourly earnings enabled the construction industry to add 36,000 employees in May, but a record number of job openings going into the month suggests contractors want to hire even more workers, according to an analysis by the Associated ...
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ATTOM has released its first-quarter 2022 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that profit margins on median-priced single-family home sales across the United States dipped to 47.2 percent – the first quarterly decline since late 2019 and the largest in ...
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The Data & Analytics division of Black Knight, Inc. Has released its latest Mortgage Monitor Report, based upon the company’s mortgage, real estate and public records datasets. As home prices and interest rates continue their sharp upward climb, this month’s report revisits the mounting affordability pressures ...
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Beacon Partners has started construction on two speculative buildings, totaling 375,874 square feet at Carolina Logistics Park, the largest master-planned industrial park within the Carolinas’ most prominent submarket. Building 2, located at 12004 Carolina Logistics Drive is 202,403 square feet ...
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It’s full steam ahead at The Line, a 16-story tower fronting the recently reopened Rail Trail in the heart of Charlotte’s South End. It was just announced this week that Chapter 6, Savi Provisions, and Grit Box Fitness ...
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Construction employment increased from February 2020—the month before the coronavirus pandemic—to February 2022 in nearly three-fifths of U.S. metro areas, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new government employment data. Association officials said it is getting ...
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ATTOM has released its year-end 2021 U.S. Home Flipping Report, which shows that 323,465 single-family homes and condos in the United States were flipped in 2021. That was up 26 percent from 2020, to the highest point since 2006. The ...
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ATTOM has released its first-quarter 2022 report analyzing qualified low-income Opportunity Zones targeted by Congress for economic redevelopment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (see full methodology below). In this report, ATTOM looked at 5,092 zones around ...
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Crescent Communities and Pretium have announced the closing of land for the development of HARMON Five Points, the fourth build-to-rent (BTR) community under development, and second community in Charlotte, as part of their previously announced joint venture and commitment to invest $1 billion ...
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Construction employment edged up by 2,000 jobs between March and April as contractors scrambled to find workers in an increasingly tight labor market, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new government data. Association leaders ...
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