The Real Estate Wonk: Homebuilding in the region - Baltimore homes, apartments, real estate: Buying, selling, renting and housing news from reporter Jamie Smith Hopkins

The Baltimore Sun > Business > Real Estate > The Real Estate Wonk

« A housing (TV show) boom | Main | Company says: Prices down, risk up »

June 13, 2008

Homebuilding in the region

Q. How many homes are companies getting permits to build in the Baltimore region?

A. A lot less than they did in 2005 and 2006, but only down a bit from 2007.

Here, have a chart:

Source: Maryland Department of Planning, U.S. Census Bureau.

Worthy of note: Seventy-five percent of the units approved from January through April 2005 were single-family homes. This year, it's 56 percent.

Also: Building permits were up in Baltimore County this year vs. 2005 -- unlike the rest of the region. Builders pulled permits for 594 homes, an increase of 15 percent from January-April 2005. The majority were not single-family.

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 9:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Categories: Number-crunching

Post a comment

All comments must be approved by the blog author. Name-calling aimed at other commenters is not welcome here. Please do not resubmit comments if they do not immediately appear. You are not required to use your full name when posting, but you should use a real e-mail address. Comments may be republished in print, but we will not publish your e-mail address. Our full Terms of Service are available here.

Name:

Email Address:

URL:

Remember personal info?

Comments:

Verification (needed to reduce spam):

About Jamie Smith Hopkins

Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
• Baltimore Sun articles by Jamie

Follow @realestatewonk on Twitter