If you’re new here, you might want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Web is full of valuable information about green building, home improvement, the housing market and first hand homebuilding experience and more. Today, we thought we would weed through some of those resources to compile a list of some of [...]

EPA’s Paint Law Frustrates Hardworking Contactors Home Construction Improvement “Here on our Home Improvement site we’ve been covering the EPA’s new Lead Paint Law closely since early spring when it went into effect. We’ve written lots of articles on the new law, training, fines and cost implications. So far we’ve met very few people that [...]

The Home-Buyer Tax Credit May Have Actually Worked Developments Blog by WSJ “Did the last round of the home-buyer tax credit have a bigger impact than analysts had previously anticipated? When it comes to new home sales, the answer may be yes. Consider that U.S. existing home sales ran at an estimated seasonally adjusted rate [...]

Economist: Housing Crisis to Linger for Years Detroit Free Press “The housing market won’t hit bottom until the third quarter and a true turnaround in new home-building is not foreseen until 2013, key economists said today.” Is bulldozer the best option for some boom-time housing? Local Address Blog by the Washington Post “Douglas Duncan, vice [...]

The big homebuyer tax credit expired on Friday, and many buyers, sellers, Realtors and builders scrambled to make sure people who sought to take advantage of the credit were able to. But was it the boon builders hoped it would be? Will construction and existing-home sales (and the remodeling work that comes with them) fall [...]