John Burns

Housing Giants columnist John Burns outlines how affordability issues have affected different housing markets in this economic cycle — and what it means for home builders.

Long-term housing demands holds in Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., and Reno, Nev.

It is not often that a rural area rises from obscurity to become one of the 50 largest housing markets in the country, but that is what is happening on the outskirts of Washington...

Our advice: Let your consumers tell you where to buy land and what to build on it, and avoid the outskirts where new home competition is significant.

This month, we feature two dramatically different markets with almost identical home prices, Dallas-Fort Worth and Jacksonville, Fla. The Dallas-Fort Worth housing market is struggling...

Understand and monitor housing market conditions to decide where to allocate resources and expand your business.