North Texas new home sales, starts, prices setting records despite labor, building supply challenges

Building supply challenges are causing new homes to take longer to be built and closed.

Building supply challenges are causing new homes to take longer to be built and closed.

Dallas-Fort Worth new home sales and median prices are running at record levels, but a disrupted material supply chain and limited construction labor pool are causing it to take longer to get houses built and closed.

North Texas homebuilders initiated housing starts on 14,216 units in the most recent quarter, eclipsing the third-quarter 2020 pace by 1,277 units and up 9.9% year over year, according to statistics released today by Dallas-based Residential Strategies Inc. 

The annual start rate, which includes the fourth quarter of 2020 through third-quarter 2021, has now climbed to 58,625 units — up 35% year over year, according to the housing market analyst.

Read the full Dallas Biz Journal article HERE.


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