Easy Living Low Maintenance Housing

Easy Living Low Maintenance Housing

Easy Living Low Maintenance Housing After decades of lawn care, shoveling snow and all the work involved with taking care of a larger property, it is no wonder that many people are flocking to low maintenance housing. In a traditional low maintenance housing...
Shelter Inflation

Shelter Inflation

The Inflation Battle May be Down to Housing and Shelter. For almost two years, prices in the U.S. have been rising faster than normal. As a result, interest rates have gone much higher, much faster than normal. As fall 2023 unfolds, the level of inflation has cooled,...
Single-family Home Production

Single-family Home Production

In January, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) announced that single-family home production was off to a sluggish start in 2023. And while that caused some concern in the industry—especially as mortgage rates and construction costs were on the rise—there...
Housing in Our Eastern Communities

Housing in Our Eastern Communities

With the pandemic behind us, hopefully, and a concerted push toward new economic development east of Pittsburgh, new housing looks even brighter for Westmoreland and eastern Allegheny Counties.  For example, Westmoreland County officials, Westmoreland County...
New Construction Affordability

New Construction Affordability

Perhaps the problem of housing affordability is not yet a crisis, but it is on its way toward crisis unless a change in trend occurs.  Solutions to this problem are pretty obvious, and also quite difficult to achieve. It’s America. It’s 2023. Everything is a crisis,...