The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book, which tracks anecdotal evidence in the economy in each of the Fed’s districts, had the following notes related to civil engineering and land development in District 6, the southeast:
Real Estate and Construction
Reports from Realtors indicated that existing home sales were stabilizing overall. Florida contacts noted that the steady improvement in [...]
The amount of news on the housing front over the last week or so is staggering. If you’re keeping up with the articles I share, you’re on top of the game. (If you use an RSS reader, use this feed…) However, I wanted to add a little to the mix of articles and organize them [...]
America’s infrastructure is in desperate need of attention and if there is indeed one area where government serves the people – all the people – it’s in the responsibility of providing safe, reliable and environmentally sound infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has almost failed in that duty. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, our infrastructure [...]
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One amazing tool that many folks don’t know about or understand is called an RSS feed. My blog has one. My company has one. And I’ve even set one up to feed the most current news in land development, with an obvious focus on the southeast and, in particular, the southeast. [...]
What is 2009 shaping up like in the residential real estate market? That’s the question that many are trying to figure out, and while nobody knows where we will be this time next year, we can look at a few things that may give us a glimpse of what it likely will be like.
First, the [...]
That was the headline in one of today’s AJC stories.
My reaction – no kidding.
In fact, that’s the same words used by a client earlier this year. It was quite obvious that the problems were huge. In fact, they’re bigger than huge – they may be insurmountable for a long, long time. Take a look [...]
The Mortgage Bankers Assocation numbers for November are pretty grim. For those in the land development industry, these numbers are pretty stark, although not surprising.
Private residential construction dropped 3.5 percent while private nonresidential construction spending fell 0.7 percent — the third decline in the last four months. A large drop in utility construction spending [...]
