The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Zonda agree to a one-year renewal of their strategic partnership. ARCHITECT will continue to be identified as “The Journal of the American Institute of Architects.”
Hanley Wood | Meyers Research, the housing industry’s leading provider of rich data, backed by Zonda and Metrostudy, and the industry’s top advisors for residential real estate development and new home construction, announced that it has named James (Jim) Adams as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) reporting directly to CEO Jeff Meyers.
Today’s homeownership rate never fully recovered from the Great Recession, and the lack of affordable housing is the main culprit. In this presentation, Meyers Research Senior Managing Principal, Tim Sullivan, and Chief Economist, Ali Wolf, and Fannie Mae’s Product Development Manager Michael Dixon cover everything from the state of housing affordability, how COVID-19 has resulted in increased interest for single-family homes, the innovative MH Advantage ® financing program that pairs affordable conforming mortgage financing with specially designed manufactured homes, and so much more.
Meyers Research, the housing industry’s foremost advisors and provider of rich data, announced veteran industry research expert Bob Tancula joined the company to spearhead Building Product Manufacturer (BPM) advisory services.
In an effort to meet the growing demand for local market data and analysis in the home building industry, Hanley Wood/Meyers Research and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) today announced the future rollout of a new home building data platform available to NAHB’s 140,000 members and powered by Zonda.
Senior Managing Principal Tim Sullivan guides us through a review of key sales and pricing metrics generated from our Zonda Master Planned Community Database that contains over 1,000 active communities in the United States. Tim is also joined by Scott Thorson COO of Oakwood Homes, LLC., Colleen Edwards Marketing Director at River Islands in Northern California and Garrett Hoskins Senior Project Director of Robert Hidey Architects to discuss industry trends and biggest learnings since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
In a coronavirus-created environment of severe inventory shortages and rising prices, home shoppers do have one advantage in the form of extremely low interest rates. Yet, while propitious today, the latter bear repercussions for the U.S. housing market for years to come. Chief Economist Ali Wolf speaks with Forbes about how some home buyers, especially those signing contracts on new builds, are already seeing loan rates below 3% with the help of sale incentives from homebuilders and developers
The U.S. April payrolls fall most on record, and the unemployment rate is the highest since the Great Depression. Chief Economist Ali Wolf speaks on Bloomberg on May 8 about the outlook for the economy and the prospects for businesses after the April U.S. jobs report.