All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Homebuilding

A year's worth of new home inventory remains unsold. Regional banks are reporting losses, because of regional builders excess inventory. With increasing foreclosures, and at current building levels, the issues remain. Large projects will be next. Poor sales at destination resorts will start to impact...

Recently, stock prices of most public homebuilders have increased 20-30 percent.  This despite no visible signs of improvement in the overall housing industry.  It seems early in the cycle for these stock price upward movements, as it appears the housing market has not yet found bottom. ...

Homebuilders have recorded large inventory impairments over the last couple of years.  Most of these impairments have been for land and lots.  As these previously impaired lots are built on and a completed home is delivered, the land component as a percentage of Cost of Goods Sold may decline...

March Las Vegas housing results can best be described as mildly disappointing. Although prices remained relatively stable and inventory continued decline, surprisingly, sales did not improve significantly. Although sales did not increase in March, there is sufficient anecdotal evidence (increasing...

The limited demand within Northeast Phoenix should come as no surprise to the State.  The deceleration in home sales has created a surplus of finished and planned lots.  Despite current market conditions, BREC anticipates the market area continuing to hold value better than most Valley submarkets...

First time buyer activity is the traditional prop for the market:  despite continued high levels of household formation (225k per annum, compared with build rates of 160-180k per annum), increasing numbers of newly forming households are choosing to rent rather than buy. In parallel, buy to let...

In sports, March Madness starts with the opening “tip off.”  In Las Vegas real estate, March Madness starts with February’s housing stats.  And, those stats are the “tip off” that this market is making progress in its struggle to get off the “bottom.”

During this housing downturn, builders should be focusing on defining and implementing the operational processes that will make them more efficient builders when the market begins to recover. In the past, home builders have relied on their trade base to provide them with the material quantities...

Some homeowners with the means to pay their mortgage payments are halting those payments, walking away from their homes instead, accepting that they are upside down, and choosing 7 years of bad credit over an unknown period of negative equity.  If Mr. Bernanke is successful in his call to bankers-...

There are risks associated with homebuilding assets and contingent obligations.  This article alerts the reader to areas of interest.