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Higher-income renters continue to drive what’s getting built and leased in the multifamily sector

BD+C

Starts of buildings with five or more housing units rose from December 2018 through December 2019 by 74.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 536,000, according to preliminary Census Bureau estimates. At the end of that period, the number of multifamily housing units under construction was up 7.3% to 177,000.

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Consumer Price Index + 2.9% (Past Twelve Months)

Job Order Contracting

Technical information: (202) 691-7000 • cpi_info@bls.gov • www.bls.gov/cpi Media Contact: (202) 691-5902 • PressOffice@bls.gov CONSUMER PRICE INDEX – JUNE 2018 The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.1 2017 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 June. Consumer Price Index Summary.

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This Company Wants to Rent Out Tiny Homes in Your Backyard

Pro Builder

What if it meant you would receive a steady income from it? Every added unit of housing can help in an area where demand far outstrips supply; one analysis estimates that to avoid the current housing crisis, the region should have built an additional 700,000 units of housing between 2000 and 2018. . cbroderick.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An The JDIG was approved by the state’s Economic Investment Committee.

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A Giant That Is (Still) Creeping Through the Construction Industry: Digitization

Building Radar

The spectrum ranges from preparing the cost estimate and the bill of quantities to processes for subsequent contract award and the ongoing project. This works, for example, with the AVA software ORCA AVA , with which you can accompany any number of construction projects of any size and with cost planning according to DIN 276-2018.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

Business Facilities

This is just a partial list of companies that have made announcements since 2018: Apple (expansion, new campus and capacity for up to 15,000 jobs); Resideo (new headquarters and 120 jobs); U.S. NYC has an estimated 200,000 businesses with 20 or fewer workers; Brooklyn has notched a startup growth rate of 356 percent since 2008.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

Pro Builder

Having witnessed income and social class inequities entrenched by corruption on their European mission, and a system in which government officials and business entrepreneurs rarely collaborate to solve civic and social problems, the Ivorys recognized the seeds of similar dynamics in their own backyard. See past Builder of the Year winners.