2025: Housing Market Projections
Despite persistently high housing costs, inflation, and mortgage rates, the housing sector is...
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“Sustainability Series” Promotes Practical Green Ideas to Consumers
The popular “Sustainability Series” features HGTV star Dave Marrs, who promotes beautiful...
Florida Insurers Plan to Reject Asphalt Roofs
An industry exec hints at phasing out coverage for shingles altogether, now that a trifecta of...
Cool Roofing Crosses Into Uncharted Temperatures
Extreme heat is pushing some roof materials to the edge of failure, but reflective roofs offer a...
The Future of Building Codes: Key Updates to the 2024 IECC and IRC
Attend Green Builder Media's next webinar January 15 at 2 p.m. Eastern. Since their first...
The Right Way to Build and Sell ADUs
Homeowners, contractors, and architects can responsibly undertake an ADU project by being...
Efficiency Secrets of a National Production Builder
Halfway through construction, three models for the VISION House Las Vegas project rise in the...
The Road Ahead for Home Building
Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond, we can expect to see the continued decarbonization of the built...
Do Vacancy Taxes Work? Yes, But Speculators Hate Them
Special taxes and fees designed to reduce the number of unoccupied units in a region have proven...
Could Owning A Dog or a Wood Stove Cost You Your Home Insurance?
It might sound counterintuitive, but when insurers look at risks, bad dogs throw up a big red flag,...
Energy Management for Smarter Apartments
Smart apartment solutions, a mix of hub hardware, connected devices, and both resident-facing and...
Power Packed
How an EV battery is packaged is as important to the environment as how the unit runs. Electric...
Study: Home Ownership Equates to Saving Almost $30,000 Annually
Archived analyses from the early 2000s found that homeowners gained more wealth than renters. Does...