HBAA members have until Thursday, January 26 to reserve rooms at a discounted rate for the 2012 Alabama’s Better Living Expo (ABLE) and HBAA Winter Meeting. Both events will take place February 27-29 at the Montgomery Renaissance Hotel & Convention Center in Montgomery.

HBAA members have until Thursday, January 26 to reserve rooms at a discounted rate for the 2012 Alabama’s Better Living Expo (ABLE) and HBAA Winter Meeting. Both events will take place February 27-29 at the Montgomery Renaissance Hotel & Convention Center in Montgomery.

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes continued to climb for a fourth consecutive month in January, rising four points to 25 on the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released today. This is the highest level the index has attained since June of 2007.

By an overwhelming margin, American voters strongly value homeownership and would oppose efforts to weaken or eliminate the mortgage interest deduction or diminish a federal role to help qualified home buyers obtain affordable 30-year mortgages, according to a new nationwide survey gauging likely voters’ attitudes towards homeownership and housing policy issues.