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UK brick deliveries are a useful proxy for new house building starts in the absence of monthly starts data. Deliveries in February were 0.9% lower than in January & 20.8% lower than a year earlier according to the Department for Business & Trade. (1/n) #ukhousing #ukconstruction https://t.co/bwUqvWzzsN
#WhatsNext? This micro home is earthquake and hurricane proof. Comes with an #AI assistant and solar panel if you wish. (GigGadgets) #Innovation https://t.co/1a2sJDwbku
Japan’s Chiyoda says it is considering resuming construction work on Qatar’s massive LNG export plant after the ceasefire ⚠️ 🇶🇦 Chiyoda’s potential return to Ras Laffan will raise hopes for the wider facility, which was evacuated over a month ago https://t.co/DvOA4L4Ilm
It’s even “funnier” that this applies to housing projects too. I have plenty of friends who have essentially started companies that sell basic construction items … like doors, cabinets, drywall … where they do ~nothing other than charge a markup...
Elizabeth Warren loves Boston Triple Deckers more than you love anything Her Road to Housing bill would turn up to 10% of the all new housing units in the US, nearly 130,000 units PER YEAR, into majestic 3-story flats
Alarms are sounding that #datacenter dvprs need to be more prepared for backlash from pols+people. W/$1.7T (w/a T) in the pipeline. 25 projects w/called off after communities protested. #NIMBY #realestate #CRE #industrial #logistics #AOC #Bernie #VA #CA https://t.co/R2wyGSAIBu
I suspect whoever wrote Section 901 of the ROAD to Housing Act heard that many investors have 7-year holds, and so they added a requirement that investors must sell build-to-rent homes after 7 years. But it's so much more complex than...
The new budget will start paring this back, but we seem to have hit peak infrastructure spending this year/next year in terms of real outlays for completed work... https://t.co/b8om2bYNrQ
Steve Yates @buildxact talk about how the #construction industry is evolving quickly. Tune in live at 12 pm CT at: https://t.co/ykUbRecoZO. #TPSS #5G #cloud #edge #digitaltransformation #PeggySmedley #podcast #Buildxactambassador https://t.co/A7yZAwxHPc
A new MTA report showed that there are 839 acres of development potential around Baltimore's Light Rail Line route (8x the size of Disneyland). If those were all developed, it would bring in $260 million in tax revenue, which would...
It's a new day at the #FlatironBuilding, as handsome 20th century #landmark begins its new life as lux #condos. 1st unit goes, entire 21st floor, w/had a $58.5M ask. #OlshanReport #NYC #FlatironDistrict #realestate #CRE #23skiddoo #mortgage https://t.co/oqZffAFrR3
Very important question: If YIMBY/Abundance is winning in California, why isn't the state building more homes? Brian Hanlon (@hanlonbt): "The main reasons we don’t have housing come down to three basic things." - First, zoning. It’s illegal to build dense housing...
A useful bit of recent information from housing expert Neal Hudson in his FT piece on issues facing housing: "even the government’s own modelling for the Future Homes Standard shows it will miss its 1.5 million housebuilding target by 400,000". #ukhousing...
Cincinnati’s Insanely beautiful train station had the capacity to see 216 trains daily, and only sees six now per week. Six. Ohio’s whole budget has a few million for rail, and hundreds of millions for the Cleveland Browns stadium.
The renovation of the Providence train station looks so good and will greatly expand capacity.
