Homebuilding activity has fallen 30% in the Richmond Metro Area compared to last year. According to Inside Business, a business news weekly in Hampton Roads, the slow-down is more pronounced in single-family housing, where permits for new homes fell from 4,490 through August of 2007, to 3,080 for the same period of 2008, or a… Read more »
Richmond Home Builders Association
Home builders anxiously wait it out
Anyone who has anything to do with putting up a house – electricians, plumbers, flooring contractors, painters – have all reacted to slower demand by cutting capacity. A Q&A with Gray Stettinius, president of the Home Building Association of Richmond. Perhaps no industry in Richmond has slowed down as much as homebuilding. Without more sales,… Read more »