There’s a silver lining in San Diego’s slumping housing market: improved affordability.
The National Association of Home Builders yesterday ranked San Diego County as the nation’s 20th least affordable metro area, a major improvement from four years ago, when the region was ranked the most unaffordable market in the nation.
It was the best ranking San Diego [...]

U.S. home builder sentiment was stuck at a record low in August, as stringent lending and a flood of foreclosed homes dragged on the real estate market, according to data from the National Association of Home Builders released on Monday.
The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market index held at 16 in August for a second straight month, [...]

Builder confidence in the market for condominiums continued to fall in the second quarter of 2008, according to the Multifamily Condo Market Index (MCMI), released today by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The latest decline pushed two of the three components of the MCMI to their lowest levels since NAHB created the index [...]

Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes fell for a third consecutive month in July, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released today. The HMI fell below its previous record low of 18 in June to a new record low of 16 in July, [...]