Home Building Slowdown

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tallguy said:
That's a mind-boggling number for a month. I'd be shocked if my town had done 609 new homes in the last 10 years. Whatever has been done, 95% would be condos. There's just no space left...
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We permitted just over 4,500 new homes in 2006. The City of North Port still has roughly 50,000 residential lots ready for development. We currently have a population of just over 50,000 persons over an aera of around 175 square miles, so its a very low density bedroom community. Our residential to commercial ratio is about 80% Res, 20% Com.

We averaged close to 25 inspections per inspector, per day for 3 years straight and are now averging around 9 per inspector per day for the last 6 months.
 
Unless there's an Amish hostile takeover in the works, there's already millions of people presently living and working in homes and businesses that are wired with electricity. The future is fine for service guys. Feel a little bad for guys who only did residential new construction. (just a little).
 
Nearly everyone I know is hurting for work. I am extremely busy and have been since May, but January - April was the worst 4 months I've ever had. And the signs I'm seeing indicate that this winter will mimic last winter. I've had to make a lot of changes to cut some costs.
 
A report in the Boston Herald today stated that single family housing permits were down 39% over the same period two years ago. That is a huge decline.
 
electricmanscott said:
A report in the Boston Herald today stated that single family housing permits were down 39% over the same period two years ago. That is a huge decline.
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I recently left the town as the building inspector, but I can say first hand that single family housing permits in Milford were down much more than 39%. I could count on one hand the number of building inspections I did each week from last fall until now. Commercial permits were as high as they ever had been, though.
 
Seattle is having one of the busiest times I've seen in my 15 years in the biz. I can't find enough help! Everyone I've spoken with in the industry here has said the same thing. I'm turnign work away for the first time.
 
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