SIC 1521 & 6552 | NAICS 236115 & 237210
The following guide to industry information, research, and analysis provides sources for industry trends and statistics, financial ratios, salary surveys, and more.
Comprehensive research reports provide in-depth industry analysis and five-year growth forecasts, with special focus on the underlying structure and external forces and relationships that affect industries and their performance. Topics addressed in the reports include:
Monthly forecast provides historical data for the most recent full calendar year, quarter-to-date data for the current year, and rolling forecasts for the next two years, with data provided including single-family and multi-family housing starts, new single-family home sales, existing home sales (condos, co-ops, and single-family), total home sales, and median home prices for new and existing homes.
Housing Information Center
https://www.nahb.org/
Information center provides links to various types of information available on this site, with categories
covered in this section including housing news, semi-annual construction forecast webinar, housing data
(e.g., economic forecasts, construction statistics, state and local data, building materials data,
and economic impact), multi-family production and vacancy indexes,
and remodeling market index.
Housing Economics
https://www.nahb.org/
Information provided in this section includes new and existing home sales reports, a summary of the
industry's contribution to the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), latest forecasts for housing starts,
home sales, and interest rates, Housing Market Index report that rates market conditions for single-
family home sales, and historical trends and forecasts for housing unit starts and building permits.
HousingEconomics.com
https://www.nahb.org/
Subscription service provides in-depth information and analysis for the housing industry, with content
categories including national update, state starts forecasts, top 100 metro forecasts, housing market
statistics, executive-level forecast, pro-level forecast, long-term forecast, employment data, building
permits, and remodeling forecast. Sample reports for each content category are available free online.
Five-year financial statement analysis includes income statements, balance sheets, and key financial ratios, with data available by sales size range on a national, state, and metro area level including:
Cost of doing business survey provides financial performance measures for home builders by type of operation
(e.g., all, with and without land costs, combination, small volume, production), with financial data
provided for each category including cost of sales, expenses, net profit, balance sheet data, and
key ratios. Study introduction, selected data, and detailed table of contents can be viewed free online.
Financial benchmarking section of this report provides an analysis of industry income and expenses as a percentage of revenue by major category (e.g., purchases, wages, depreciation, marketing, rent, utilities, other costs, and earnings before interest and taxes) for the most recent year and line graphs indicating trends for each category over the past five years. Sample report can be viewed free online.
Quadrennial compensation survey for single-family home building companies provides compensation and benefits information for 39 job positions, with survey results categorized by annual dollar volume, annual units started, number of employees, and geographic region. Executive summary, introduction, builder profile, and table of contents listing all positions covered by the study are available free online.
Annual wage surveys provide hourly and annual wage data on a national, state, and metropolitan area basis for persons employed by developers that prepare land for development and subdivide it for sale to builders and contractors that construct or renovate single-family homes and multi-family residential buildings such as apartments, condos, co-operatives, duplexes, townhouses, and retirement villages.
Free online service provides salary, bonus, and hourly wage rate data for selected job positions in this sector such as construction superintendant, project manager, construction foreman, electrician, finish carpenter, lead carpenter, carpenter, and laborer, with firms for which salary or hourly wage rate data is provided including Pulte Homes, Inc., Toll Brothers, Inc., Lennar Corporation, and D.R. Horton, Inc.
Interactive database provides detailed transaction data for over 38,000 private and public companies sold for prices ranging from under $250,000 to over $500,000,000, with valuation measures provided including market value of invested capital as a multiple of revenue, gross profit, EBIT, EBITDA, SDE, and book value of invested capital. User guide, free webinar, and sample reports are available online.