By Jann Swanson
Posted To: MND NewsWire
As if the new home inventory wasn’t tight enough, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) say a higher proportion of those homes are being built as rentals rather than owner occupancy . Robert Dietz, writing in NAHB’s Eye on Housing blog says the numbers are small, but the increase has continued for several recent quarters. From the first quarter of 2017 through the first three months of 2018, construction starts for homes built specifically as rental property rose from 33,000 to 37,000. Seven thousand of those starts were in the first quarter of this year. According to Census Bureau estimates, the market share of single-family homes built to be rented (and not including those built and sold to someone who then rents them out) accounted, on a one-year moving average basis, for 4.3…(read more)
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