The Atlanta-area communities are in Alpharetta and Sugar Hill, while the Texas projects are in Frisco, Allen, McKinney, Forney, Princeton, Grand Prairie and Waxahachie.

Longer-commute areas continued to claim the largest market share in single-family homebuilding, but the construction growth rate was strongest in places with shorter commuting times, the National Association of Home Builders said, citing its quarterly Home Building Geography Index.

Special questions added to the National Association of Home Builders’ monthly builder survey found 90% or more of respondents had experienced shortages of plywood, oriented strand board, framing lumber and appliances, with most other materials also hard to come by. 

All open-concept designs will offer three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and two-car garages. They will range in size from 1,671 square feet to 2,090 and be priced from the mid-$300,000s.

The 19-hole Oaks Golf Course will be replaced with 142 single-family houses, 190 townhomes, 360 apartments and 143,000 square feet of retail space.

Lumber prices have tripled over the past 12 months, driving up the price of the average new single-family home by $35,872. NAHB hopes to alleviate the situation by meeting with the White House, lawmakers and others.

Low mortgage rates and low inventory levels are making the demand for homebuilding more attractive to buyers in Atlanta.

The NAHB attributed the monthly increase in its construction spending index to single-family construction and single-family improvements, both of which rose by 2% on a monthly basis. Multifamily construction, meanwhile, declined 0.3% after falling 0.9% in February.  

The five-story, wood-frame building will be located on the future Westside Beltline Trail and one mile away from the Westside Reservoir Park at Bellwood Quarry.

The national homebuilder will tear down five older single-family houses to make way for the new master-planned community.

Station 496, as the project will be known, will bring 123 affordable-housing units to Boulevard Northeast when it opens in 2022.

The DHS announcement comes in response to businesses reporting an immediate need for supplemental, temporary guest workers for this fiscal year.

The new basement-ready sites will be available this summer.

The development, to be known as Morrison Park, would be built on an undeveloped 25-acre parcel at the intersection of Haynes Bridge Road and Morrison Parkway.

The National Association of Homebuilders expects continued growth in single-family construction through the rest of 2021, although at a slower pace than that of 2020.

Barry Companies Inc. is asking Newnan to annex 42 acres it hopes to turn into a massive mixed-use development that would bring more than 1 million square feet of residential, office and retail space to an undeveloped area east of the city’s downtown.