Residential Tuesday 2007.0626

Tue Jun 26 14:43:51 PDT 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis every week in this free email newsletter from the editors of ArchitectureWeek. 

Last week's U.S. Commerce Department housing report showed a continuing decline in new residential construction:

	"Construction of new homes fell in May as the nation's home
	builders were battered by the crisis in subprime lending and
	rising mortgage rates.

	"Housing, which is struggling through its biggest downturn in
	16 years, is expected to continue to face troubles in the
	months ahead before starting to stage a sustained rebound in
	2008.

	"The Commerce Department reported ... that construction
	of new homes and apartments dropped by 2.1 percent last
	month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.474 million
	units, 24.2 percent below the level of a year ago."

	Lending Woes, Rates Slow Home-Building - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2007.0620
	http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07171/795486-28.stm

Meanwhile, construction cost was cited as a major contributor to slumping new home sales issues in the United States, Australia, and elsewhere.

High Construction Materials Inflation Continues in May - REED Construction Data, 2007.0625
http://www.buildingteamforecast.com/article/CA6454918.html

Building Costs Force New Home Sales Down - The Age (Australia), 2007.0626
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/building-costs-force-new-home-sales-down/2007/06/26/1182623884224.html

Rising Costs Put Lebanese Real Estate Beyond Reach of Customers - Lebanon Daily Star, 2007.0625
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=25&article_id=83308

Residential Design and Building News
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Hanover Quay Development Wins Architecture Award - Irish Times, 2007.0626
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0626/breaking33.htm

Paved with Gold: The Real Value of Street Design - AZoBuild, 2007.0626
http://www.azobuild.com/news.asp?newsID=3941

High Modern at Low Cost - University of Arkansas Daily Headlines, 2007.0626
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/10858.htm

Struggle Reflects Housing Program's Snags - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2007.0625
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070625/NEWS/706250465/-1/NEWS08

The Slow Home Movement - World Changing (blog), 2007.0625
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006947.html

Many Unaware of Fire Risks When Building Out West - Houston Chronicle, 2007.0625
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4919702.html

California Wildfire Destroys 165 Homes - Forbes, 2007.0625
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/06/25/ap3852389.html

Slump? What Slump? Home Values OK - CNN, 2007.0625
http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/25/news/economy/home_value_confidence/?postversion=2007062514

In Tacoma, a Residential Rebirth - New York Times, 2007.0624
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/business/24natreal.html?ref=yourmoney

Dream House Slips into a Nightmare - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0624
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/24/HOUSE.TMP

List Offers Hope for Richardson House - Boston Globe, 2007.0624
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/24/list_offers_hope_for_richardson_house/

Two Loft Conversions, Two Points of View - New York Times, 2007.0624
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/realestate/24window.html?ref=realestate

Questions Your Broker Can't Answer - New York Times, 2007.0624
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/realestate/24cov.html?ref=realestate

House on the Rock - Louisville Courier-Journal, 2007.0624
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070624/FEATURES05/706240360/1039

Bay Area's Best Design Isn't Just for the Rich - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0623
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/23/HOUSING.TMP

The Principle of 2nd Home, 2nd Vote - New York Times, 2007.0622
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/realestate/greathomes/22politics.html?ref=realestate

Crisis in Public Design, Says Jury - Sydney Morning Herald, 2007.0622
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/crisis-in-public-design-says-jury/2007/06/22/1182019367436.html

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