Most people shopping for a custom home builder focus on square footage and finishes. Few ask about what's hidden behind the walls—until the first utility bill arrives, or the HVAC ...

The link between construction costs and real estate prices has weakened in recent decades, finds research from UChicago Booth ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. The photo above shows four of Milwaukee’s newest houses. They ...

Could you save money building a home yourself instead of trying to buy one? With mortgage rates bouncing around even as they slowly decline, it’s an intriguing proposition. According to data from ...

The Trump administration’s latest tariffs on housing materials could raise the average cost of building a single-family home by nearly $9,000, according to a report Tuesday from UBS. Research analyst ...

In response to my column “Educating Zohran: What nonprofit housing actually costs,” about a Broome Street project costing $921,000 per unit, a reader pointed out that it would cost a lot less to ...