Mike and Crystal Green couldn’t have picked a worse time to look for a new home. In mid-February, Mike was offered a promotion to be regional sales manager at Chatsworth Products, a computer security company. The catch was the couple would need to relocate from California to the Houston area by April 1. The Greens accepted an offer on their […]
Home Building in the U.S. Rose in April
WASHINGTON—A gauge of home building across the U.S. increased in April, driven by an uptick in single-family construction across much of the country. So-called housing starts rose 5.7% in April from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.235 million, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Residential building permits, which can signal how […]