Recent statistics for July point to a national increase in new home construction nationwide and this is good news for every builder who has been waiting to return to work. Here in the Southern Oregon real estate market, most builders now accept the new reality of going green as the future of new home construction. Breaking out of a comfort zone has always been a challenge and going green is no exception.

From a pragmatic stand point, for builders going green means learning about new building technologies and then applying them to the trade. For buyers in search of a new home, going green means digging a little deeper into the pocket book. Fortunately, recent surveys are encouraging. Buyers are willing to pay more for the long-term money-saving advantages of going green. With the tighter framing envelopes of new home construction, power bills will go down for the life of the home and this is a feature worth investing in.

The Southern Oregon real estate market reflects the nationwide trend as developers explore the trend of going green. For example, the Summer Field subdivision in Grants Pass will be a subdivision of new homes with a green component that includes increased state-of-the-art insulation and a solar-power generation component.

Yes, the last year for the housing sector has been challenging, but the future of new home construction has never looked better. No one ever said change would be easy… that is, until it’s behind us.

Michael Masters

A Socially Conscious Real Estate Consultant

Once again, there is good news and bad news to mull over as we patiently await the coming recovery in Southern Oregon real estate market. The good news is that permits and actual starts for single-family new home construction went up nationally by 3.6% in the month of April when compared with March. The bad news is that the same number is down by 80% compared to the high-water mark in January of 2006. But improvement, like time itself, marches on. And for that there is joy not only in Mudville but in the entire Southern Oregon real estate market.

It has been my recent experience that out-of-work contractors in the Southern Oregon real estate market who specialize in new home construction are making transitions, either to Continue reading New Home Construction and the Southern Oregon Real Estate Market