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A 160 square foot house?

Posted on Tuesday March 11th, 2008 at 06:23 in construction, home buyer information

Looking for an unusual hideaway, rustic cabin or an efficient little cottage? Brad Kittel’s Tiny Texas Houses is building tiny homes from 160 to 370 square feet with exclusively vintage lumber...
Mortgage applications drop, mixed signals from builders

Posted on Thursday February 21st, 2008 at 03:12 in construction, housing market, mortgage news, mortgage rates

New mortgage applications continued to seesaw wildly last week, with purchase applications dropping 11.5% and refinance applications dropping 27.9%, largely on the effect of a 0.37% increase in both 1...
New home market strengthens further

Posted on Sunday December 2nd, 2007 at 00:59 in construction, housing market

The new home market showed further strength in October as new home sales rose 1.7% to an annual rate of 728,000 homes. Inventory remained high with enough homes on the market to cover 8.5 months of n...