Tag: household formation
Consumer credit growth decelerates in March
The consumer credit reading includes most short and intermediate-term credit extended to individuals. It does not include loans secured by real estate, so mortgages...
Don’t worry, be happy
"We think that an improving single-family market is a good thing for the apartment markets and the economy as a whole," Camden Property Trust...
Construction heat map: where next?
But if the Census numbers are any guide, most of these new households-students graduating from college, adult children moving out of their parents' basements,...
Where do we go from here?
In March of 2012, Jim Cramer, former hedge fund manager, and host of CNBC's Mad Money, warned his audience that it was time to...
The next question facing cities: Will Millennials stay?
Mostly these are the Millennials—adults roughly 20 to 34-years-old, also known as Generation Y or the Echo Boom—who have delayed childbearing, marriage, and even...
Half a million TV viewing homes disappear
As of the end of August, Nielsen has adjusted the number of viewing households to 114.2 million. "We have had no household formation over the...
Multiple families, one roof
The suburban single-family home is becoming a misnomer as economic reality collides with shifting demographics. Many suburban communities have long made it difficult, or impossible,...
Household formation trends and links
To get some sense of how much higher demand for housing would have been if household formation had remained at its precrisis pace, here's...
Renters growing in numbers
The trend away from home ownership to renting appears to reflect not only the weakening of personal finances, but a move away from long-held...
