• Sitewire launches AI tools to streamline pre-construction risk review,Tyler Williams

    Sitewire launches AI tools to streamline pre-construction risk review

    As homebuilders face shrinking access, tighter reins, and higher costs from traditional local and regional banks for construction financing, Sitewire this week introduced two new AI tools, BudgetIQ and Permit IQ, to streamline pre-construction budgeting and permitting for small residential construct

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  • Why invisible risk will define homebuilding’s 2026 reality,John McManus

    Why invisible risk will define homebuilding’s 2026 reality

    Builders often talk about “uncertainty” as if it were a temporary fog that had to clear eventually. Rates will decline, the Fed will pivot, pent-up demand will return, migration will pick up again, and the longstanding pattern of structural underbuilding will resume.  The idea that the industry’s bi

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  • U.S. House unveils Housing for the 21st Century Act,Jonathan Delozier, Flávia Furlan Nunes

    U.S. House unveils Housing for the 21st Century Act

    The Housing for the 21st Century Act — the U.S. House’s version of the Senate-approved ROAD to Housing Act — was unveiled Wednesday. Led by sponsors including Chairman French Hill (R-Ark.), Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Chairman Mike Flood (R-Neb.) and Ranking Member Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo

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