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August home builder sentiment and sales/prices/starts survey results are in. Top themes: 1) Home price cuts along with other incentives are helping sales (for now). 2) Supply chain is healing as demand drops and builders quickly slow housing starts. Market commentary to follow…
#Austin builder: “A lot of spec inventory to work through. August was a very poor month for sales across the board. Cancellations spiked from July and buyers showed no sense of urgency.”
#Baltimore builder: “Jumbo loan rates below 5% are helping buyers move forward in that segment.”
Home price trends across 20 top housing markets. Pace of price increases moderating (left chart), which you can see in our underlying home price index flattening out or actually falling in a few markets (right chart). Start it off with #Atlanta. 
#Austin home prices
#Boise home prices
June home builder sentiment and survey results are in. Top themes: 1) A lot more new home buyers cancelling. 2) Price cuts becoming fairly common. 3) Drop in demand finally cooling construction cost pressures (builder layoffs also happening). Market commentary to follow…
#Atlanta builder: “Someone turned out the lights on our sales in June!”
#Austin builder: “Sales have fallen off a cliff. We’re selling 1/3 of what we sold in March and April. Trades are more willing to negotiate pricing since market has adjusted significantly past 60 days.”
April homebuilder survey results are here. Top themes: 1) Demand is slowing, namely entry-level due to payment shock. 2) Investors are pulling back. 3) Ripple effect of rising rates starting to hit move-up market. Market commentary to follow…
#Dallas builder: “Interest lists are shrinking or buyers are truly pausing.”
#Houston builder: “Many first-time buyers simply no longer qualify with the increase in interest rates, as their debt-to-income ratio gets out of whack.”
Taking in another fantastic game of #Boise’s very own #CamelToePicks… goooooo CTP!💯🙌
Live tweeting the action rn, right here…🧵
Live tweeting the action rn, right here…🧵
1:00 left in P2. 2-2 @Plasstastic is about to go off in P3 #CTPBoise…
End of P2. 2-2 in favor of #CamelToePicks (because no one else is live tweeting this rn, I own the information bahahaha!)
To all my fellow #Boise bartenders,
I left the industry & after just 6 weeks I can tell you it was the right decision for me. Maybe it is for you too. I know- you think the money won’t be as good, and you’re right…🧵
I left the industry & after just 6 weeks I can tell you it was the right decision for me. Maybe it is for you too. I know- you think the money won’t be as good, and you’re right…🧵
It’s better. Literally everywhere else it’s better. Sure, you might have to work an extra day, but you won’t have to cover a shift.
You won’t have to remember that time you cut your hand on a glass & had to miss work for a week, & how workman’s comp only covered the medical expenses & the rehab you didn’t/couldn’t go to because it was at 8am & how your hand still hurts.
Just published September home builder survey results (sales, prices, costs, communities, etc.). Big themes: 1) Supply chain, supply chain, supply chain. 2) Monthly price hikes no longer the norm. 3) Some of the hottest markets sounding toppy. Market commentary to follow…
#Austin builder: “No end in sight for labor & material issues. Told by logistics guy last week that his company believes it will take at least a year to get the supply chain back to working.”
#Austin builder: “Availability of windows has limited closings this year & availability of appliances has caused closings to slide to a later month. Availability of paint is stressing Q4 closings & causing even more bunching toward late in the year.”
New home sales fell in May, Y/Y & M/M. Theme of the month was sales decline by builder design. Few comments on demand slowing or skittish buyers, even w/new home prices +18% Y/Y nationally (survey record). Builder commentary from across the country per our survey to follow...
#Nashville builder: “Gapped out. Sales resume in June as new communities & phases start to open. By moving ability to contract on inventory homes later to finished drywall stage (window installation stage previously), expect sales to show continued decline. Decline by design.”
#Charlotte builder: “Paused sales from mid-May to mid-June in all communities & will selectively release homes for sale in the last 2 weeks of June & coming months. Sales look lower vs. last month but was capped due to limited lot availability & no inventory.”
Some interesting housing color from mid-April around the country home builder channel check. Bunch of market commentary to follow...will try to hit most top markets.
#SaltLakeCity home builder mid-April color: “Still have 10x buyers to available homes to buy. Went to 'highest/ best' offer system March 1st & offers over asking price are shocking. Most offers are 10+% over ask, that's after raised base prices $10K to $20K+ with each release.”
#Austin home builder mid-April color: “Super high demand. Volume controlled with release process, otherwise would be unbearable. Some price increases are $100K between releases.”
Taking a break from the #CapitolSiege to ask everyone a question I ponder ALL the time: Which urban neighborhoods bordering major waterfronts offer safe *pedestrian* access to the actual WATER—and preferably to long linear parks offering > 1000’/300m of continuous water access?
I've spent MANY hours looking at Google Maps for ways to walk to the river from residential neighborhoods in cities all over the U.S. Access is TERRIBLE. I'm sooo envious of #Vancouver, BC. It's frustrating how cut off we are by seawalls, railroads, industry, private homes... /2
Hood River is an incredible town, and it’s the undisputed windsurfing capital of Earth. But, just like ALL of Oregon’s Columbia River towns, I-84 completely severs all possible pedestrian connections between residential areas and the river itself. /3
String of eye-popping stats on how truly counterproductive expanding freeways is, taken from strongtowns.org/journal/2020/3… @StrongTowns @nomorefreeways @sarahforpdx @enobacon @oregonmetro @chrisformetro @PBOTinfo @OregonDOT @SunrisePDX @tinaintheburbs @BrentToderian @JeffSpeckAICP 1/7
Between 1993 & 2017, total freeway lane-miles in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas increased by 42% (31% more than the population growth of 32%). So, free-flow on highways resulted, right, DOTs? Wrong: congestion skyrocketed by 144% (4.5X higher than the population growth).
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And yes: 42% is 31% higher than 32%. Errors with percentages, especially regarding #elections, are made constantly. OK, back to crushing the “building your way out of congestion” logic: #Nashville’s traffic delay increased by 329%, or ~5.5X the % increase in lane-miles added. 3/7
I am a strong believer in local journalism.
I'm happy to say, journalism in the #Boise-area in 2019 is STRONG.
Here is a select list of some of the stories that most impacted or impressed me in 2019.
Happy Christmas reading!
I'm happy to say, journalism in the #Boise-area in 2019 is STRONG.
Here is a select list of some of the stories that most impacted or impressed me in 2019.
Happy Christmas reading!
From @XavierAWard & Lauren Berry at @Boiseweekly:
An ad hoc group sprang up in Downtown Boise to help keep the peace after the sun goes down. Learn about The Syndicate:
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An ad hoc group sprang up in Downtown Boise to help keep the peace after the sun goes down. Learn about The Syndicate:
idahopress.com/boiseweekly/ne…
From @CynthiaSewell at @IdahoStatesman:
There's a new coin honoring the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. But there's one little problem:
idahostatesman.com/news/politics-…
There's a new coin honoring the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. But there's one little problem:
idahostatesman.com/news/politics-…
Lights for Liberty #50States #CloseTheCamps
#LightsforLiberty #Lights4Liberty
#NeverAgainIsNow
THREAD of all 50 States & DC
Find your State's & Retweet it to your Senators (I've tagged) & Rep
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#LightsforLiberty #Lights4Liberty
#NeverAgainIsNow
THREAD of all 50 States & DC
Find your State's & Retweet it to your Senators (I've tagged) & Rep
All Twitter Handles here:
Senators pc2a.info/TwitterHandles…
Reps pc2a.info/SenatorsPhones…
Homer, Alaska says #CloseTheCamps #FreeTheChildren
#LightsforLiberty #Lights4Liberty
#Alaska #AK @seffcarol
@lisamurkowski @SenDanSullivan
THREAD #50States
#LightsforLiberty #Lights4Liberty
#Alaska #AK @seffcarol
@lisamurkowski @SenDanSullivan
THREAD #50States
In the "very red, very small" town of Anniston #Alabama
#LightsforLiberty #Lights4Liberty
#AL @brookecarbo
@SenDougJones @SenShelby
THREAD #50States
#LightsforLiberty #Lights4Liberty
#AL @brookecarbo
@SenDougJones @SenShelby
THREAD #50States
Good size crowd here for the @boisepublib hearing. LOTS of chairs put out. Still a few minutes until this begins. Public testimony will be heard. #BoiseDev
@boisepublib As far as I'm aware, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, Friends of Boise Public Library and Boise Working Together all worked to get people to this meeting. I'd estimate a little more than 100 folks here - just a rough estimate.
@boisepublib Jade Riley on an advisory vote: “The city is not allowed on its own accord to place something on the ballot.”
#Breaking - About 100 goats are on the loose right now in a #Boise neighborhood. They are going house to house eating everything in sight. Nobody has a clue where they came from...updates to follow
Here is a live look at #Boise Goat-a-Paloza 2018
Party is over “kids”! Loose goats have been cornered and loaded back onto a truck owned by “We Rent Goats”
