GLG News by Land Option Contracts Experts: Homebuilders (US)

We see from the article that over 40 % of the nation’s imports by cargo ship flow through the adjacent Long Beach and Los Angeles ports which lie smack in the middle of the Los Angeles Metroplex. Moreover, the traffic at the ports will double in the next dozen or so years. The container port proposed...

Affordability ratios are too high, sales are weak, a reduced number of new jobs don't help and wages at the middle and upper levels are not increasing. 

The greater fool enters a market when investment interest rates elevate and negative leverage occurs. Or when income streams are interrupted by an inventory of new construction.

There is no doubt that homebuilding is well off its peak building year of 2005; however, smart builders such as NVR are well positioned to take advantage of opportunties that do exist in this current market to build market share. NVR's strategy of lot options allows a more flexible business plan that...

We’ve arrived at a crucial time in this cycle where foreclosures and defaults both existing and imminent throughout the country threaten to tip prices over to substantial market price reductions.

When the housing market moves up, it moves up at a rapid clip or so it seems. We spend so much time enjoying the new wealth if we are home owners or involved in the housing industry that time seems to fly. When the market slows or dips, the process seems to take forever. And, in truth, it does take...

The factors outlined show that the growth in family income is being outpaced by the growth in family expenses. Something’s got to give and it will be the cost of housing that leads the giving. There aren’t many ways to get the family income up anymore now that the college degree is a standard and...

The consensus for the future as now laid forth for investors by the housing industry is that there can be no consensus currently. There just are too many variables to make a wise call guided by historical trends, it is said. And no one among the investors or the media today rises to dispute that forecast,...

There are lessons to be learned here. The company whose CEO talks here about current market conditions has been the subject of one of the most long lasting and intensive series of legal maneuvers by several corporate successor entities regarding the development of acreage in California. Hardly a real...

Apartment rents will be difficult on the average to raise in light of the significant increases last year.  There is no shortage of rentals in the average market to cause a different result.  Strained household incomes will be difficult to stretch to higher levels across the markets....