ArchWeek Residential 2009.1029
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Thu Oct 29 13:44:29 PDT 2009
Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
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The lead item today has to be the upbeat new U.S. GDP numbers:
"The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time
in more than a year as government stimulus helped lift consumer
spending and home building, fueling an unexpectedly strong
advance.
"Signaling the end of the worst recession in 70 years, the
Commerce Department on Thursday said the economy expanded at an
annual rate of 3.5 percent in the July-September period,
snapping four down quarters with its fastest growth pace since
the third quarter of 2007 and exceeding forecasts for a 3.3
percent rate....
"Stripping out auto output, the economy would have expanded at
only a 1.9 percent rate in the third quarter.
"'The economy is entirely dependent on federal deficit spending
at the moment. But the stimulus will not fade right away ...
that means we can rely on solid growth continuing through the
first quarter of next year,' said Chris Low, chief economist at
FTN Financial in New York.
"'Once the government steps aside, growth is likely to fall back
to a 1-2 percent rate of growth.'"
Economy Returns to Growth after Deep Slump - Reuters, 2009.1029
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59S1EF20091029
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U.S. Mortgage Rates Hold Just Above 5 Percent: Freddie - Reuters, 2009.1029
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Economy/idUSTRE59S2T320091029
Obama Admin Urges Congress Extend Homebuyer Credit - Reuters, 2009.1029
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSWBT01327920091029
U.S. Home Vacancy Rate Rose to 2.6 pct in Q3 - Reuters, 2009.1029
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2936180920091029
US Home Buyer Credit Spurred 400,000 sales - Reuters, 2009.1029
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerFinancialServices/idUSN2936396420091029
US Foreclosures Spike in New Regions in 3rd Quarter - Reuters, 2009.1028
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSNYS00747920091028
Senate Democrats Say Have Deal on Homebuyer Credit - Reuters, 2009.1027
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59Q4DR20091027
Judge Delays Deadline in Capmark Servicing Sale - Reuters, 2009.1027
http://www.reuters.com/article/BROKER/idUSN2726054820091027
Homebuilding's Crash Is Worsening - Sacramento Bee, 2009.1026
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/real_estate/archives/2009/10/homebuildings-c.html
Homebuilders Still Struggling - The Deal, 2009.1026
http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2009/10/homebuilders_still_struggling.php
California Builders Lobby for Tax Credit Extension for New Home Buyers - Los Angeles Times, 2009.1026
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2009/10/california-builders-lobby-for-new-home-buyer-tax-credit-extension-.html
Fewer McMansions on the Horizon - Wall Street Journal, 2009.1026
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703573604574491630350933974.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_realestate
Housing Market Dance Takes Small Steps Forward - and Back - Arizona Business Journal, 2009.1026
http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2009/10/26/construction_real_estate/doc4ae1e449b4568521859887.txt
Architect Joe Tanney to Speak on Modern Modular - University of Kentucky News, 2009.1026
http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=1&artid=5116
The Setting of the Spanish Sun - Yale Globalist, 2009.1025
http://tyglobalist.org/index.php/20091025225/Features/The-Setting-of-the-Spanish-Sun.html
Recession, Changing Preferences Driving Smaller Homes - Columbus Dispatch, 2009.1025
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/home_garden/stories/2009/10/25/SMALL_HOMES.ART_ART_10-25-09_H1_H1FE6CP.html?sid=101
Designing for High and Low - New York Times, 2009.1025
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/realestate/25scapes.html?hpw
Barn Becomes Home in Renovation - Los Angeles Times, 2009.1024
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-gash24-2009oct24,0,3502104.story
Disappointing Housing Numbers Spark Debate on Recovery - Taipan Publishing, 2009.1023
http://www.taipanpublishinggroup.com/news-1023092.html
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Lyde End Is in a Field of Its Own - BD, 2009.1023
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=719&storycode=3150934&channel=783&c=2
Home Builders Confidence Slips Slightly in October - Business Bulletin, 2009.1023
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091023/NEBULLETIN/911010317#STS=g19osht9.10bw
Flat by the Founder of the Bauhaus - Country Life, 2009.1023
http://www.countrylife.co.uk/blogs/article/427826/Flat-by-the-founder-of-the-Bauhaus.html
House 'Too Big' for Uplands - Victoria Times Colonist, 2009.1022
http://www.timescolonist.com/business/House+Uplands/2131497/story.html
NY Court Rules against Stuyvesant Town Owners - Reuters, 2009.1022
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE59L4W620091022
A Tax-Credit Boondoggle - San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.1022
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/22/EDJP1A9B2A.DTL
Home Buyer Tax Credit Fraud Called 'Disturbing' - USA Today, 2009.1022
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2009-10-22-homebuyer-tax-credit-fraud_N.htm
McMansions, Be Gone - Boston Globe, 2009.1022
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/house/articles/2009/10/22/hometta_offers_architects_a_chance_for_a_modern_approach_to_creating_a_house/
High Tension over Big Timber - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1021
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/1021/news_2-1.html
Late in 2007, storm-driven rains in southwestern
Washington sent floodwater, mud, and tons of logging
debris crashing into homes and farmland downstream of
the Chehalis River. The floods caused massive erosion of
mountain habitat and hundreds of millions of dollars in
property damage, and downed an estimated 140,000
truckloads of timber n much of it on land owned by the
Weyerhaeuser Company, the state's largest private
timberland owner.
Wright-Ish - Metropolis, 2009.1021
http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20091021/wright-ish
Fewer Home-Building Permits Signal Weakness Ahead - Associated Press, 2009.1021
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gNiyJ905Ho0Ur96V2TQhsBX19lGwD9BETAD80
Sector Snap: Homebuilders Slip on Housing Data - Associated Press, 2009.1021
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gExfBwqmDtOMYkMYfzI1Thb_yVeAD9BESPU80
U.S. Architecture Billings Up in September-AIA - Reuters, 2009.1021
http://www.reuters.com/article/CARMFG/idUSN2147828820091021
Homebuilding May Be Losing Momentum - UPI, 2009.1020
http://www.upi.com/Real-Estate/2009/10/20/Homebuilding-May-be-Losing-Momentum/2461256072219/
Housing Starts Stay Steady, but Builders Fear End of Tax Credit - NPR Planet Money, 2009.1020
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/10/housing_starts_increased_05_pe.html
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