A View From the Top – Texas Residential Construction in November

From home builders with the most housing starts to areas with the highest concentration of new home construction, here is look at the top builders and areas in Texas last month. While November wasn’t a record-breaking month for new residential … Continue reading

HBW Report: New Swimming Pool Construction in Texas through Q3

Through the third quarter of this year, Texas has experienced a 3% year-over-year increase in swimming pool construction. With close to 6,100 swimming pool starts through the third quarter of 2017, Texas is gaining on last year’s pool construction figures … Continue reading

HBW Report: Texas New Residential Construction October 2017

Last month, new residential construction in Texas resulted in 6,150 new permits being added to the HBW database.  Out of the nearly $1.5B total value in housing starts, the highest value of new construction remained in Dallas where the average … Continue reading

Texas Report: New Residential Construction – August 2017

Last week, we reviewed the latest on new swimming pool construction in Texas based on HBW’s construction permit reports.  This week, we have used the same reports for finding out where new residential construction is taking off in Texas.  Out … Continue reading

HBW Report: Texas New Swimming Pool Construction – August 2017

  While it’s not often that we look at pool construction in Texas, every month hundreds of new swimming pool construction permits are added to the HBW database, giving us plenty to review and share with our subscribers.  In August, … Continue reading

Home Builders Helping Houston

Ways home builders (and anyone) can help residents of Houston rebuild and recover in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. You don’t have to be in Houston to know that it sustained massive flooding and damage from its recent hit by … Continue reading

Texas Residential Construction 2nd Quarter Review

HBW Report: New Residential Construction Permits in Texas through Q2-2017 Through the first half of this year, Texas is ahead of 2016 in new residential construction.  With more than 36.2k housing starts on file with HBW this year, Texas has … Continue reading

Houston Leads Texas Residential Construction in July

HBW Report: Texas Residential Construction July 2017 Overall, new residential construction was up in Texas last month.  With a total of approximately 7,260 housing starts and $1.7B in total construction value, the Lone Star State experienced an 11% month-over-month increase … Continue reading

Texas Home Building Report – June 2017

HBW Report: The latest residential construction permit data across the Lone Star State From D.R. Horton’s dominance in Dallas to the high concentration of housing starts in Houston, summertime in Texas is looking like home building time.  While there was … Continue reading

Texas New Swimming Pool Construction Report – May 2017

A review and report on the latest swimming pool construction in Texas for the month of May. With the summer temperatures rising, so do the new swimming pool permits and leads with HBW.  In May, more than 800 new swimming … Continue reading