{"id":8,"date":"2026-09-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/mahmoudchitsazan-com\/2026\/09\/02\/nahb-builder-confidence-rises-to-35-in-august-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:00:00","slug":"nahb-builder-confidence-rises-to-35-in-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/02\/nahb-builder-confidence-rises-to-35-in-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NAHB Builder Confidence Rises to 35 in August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The Housing Market Index rose to 35 in August but stayed below positive builder conditions due to high borrowing costs, construction expenses, and uneven buyer demand. Single-family sales conditions remain restrained, with 35% of builders reducing prices by an average of 6%. Regional sentiment varies, with the Midwest strongest and the South and West weaker. Smaller markets and custom homebuilding show better conditions than larger metro areas and speculative building.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivAFBVV95cUxNdDQ0T3FmaTFJVVRjeGFLbExaRjRfRFU3VVN3SHVubVg2c19qYTBaSWpEczk0ZkVydkJETVZJQU1oUlFJMTJYZTNYdzNzV3FWY3VqeUFKZmMySms0NldXSjFWSUFJWWtyakZKNkkyNDBSaUZLdkx6Z2IzSDVzdzdQWVA0MHRCVWtRTVN2Qk1KcmRtNVo0cWRyNnlobnY2VGFsZEJQUkpVLWZBdnJXeWhQanRXcjdmc3NtQXhWSA?oc=5\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Housing Market Index rose to 35 in August but stayed below positive builder conditions due to high borrowing costs, construction expenses, and uneven buyer demand. Single-family sales conditions remain restrained, with 35% of builders reducing prices by an average of 6%. Regional sentiment varies, with the Midwest strongest and the South and West weaker. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahmoudchitsazan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}