The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) reports that Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes rose one point in July. Now at 65, sentiment levels have held at a steady low- to- mid-60s range for the past six months. However, optimism in rising numbers is mixed with concern […]

Homebuilders’ confidence in the single-family housing market slipped in March, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), which came out on Monday. The index dropped two points to 53, the third month in a row it’s fallen. “The drop in builder confidence is largely attributable to supply chain […]

Nationwide housing affordability dipped in the second quarter of 2014 as several markets saw a firming of home prices, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI). In all, 62.6 percent of new and existing homes sold between the beginning of April and the end of June were affordable to […]

  Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose four points in to reach a level of 49 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released yesterday. “After several months of little fluctuation, a four-point uptick in builder sentiment is a welcome sign and shows some renewed […]

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose by three points to 20 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for November, released today. The gain builds on a revised three-point increase in October, and brings the confidence gauge to its highest level since May of […]