Are you looking to buy your dream home? Consider a spec home if you want high-quality finishes and a new, move-in-ready home. A spec house or speculation house is a sample home developers build to ...

Both spec and fully custom builds have their appeal, but they come with vastly different price tags, timelines, and financial ...

Inventory of new completed houses jumped by 46% year-over-year in August. About half of all new houses sold are in various stages of construction currently. This buildup of spec houses is what the ...

Builders offering incentives to move inventory as they proceed more cautiously with new projects The supply of spec houses finished but unsold is rising — a sign that the new home market is struggling ...

Lennar's incentives surged to $48,100 per house, with prices dropping 5.8% year-over-year, helping new homes outcompete existing homes on a monthly payment basis. New single-family home sales rose 7.3 ...

"What is the optimal scale of spec inventory?" With economic signals sending mixed messages, a thin line separates maintaining sufficient inventory to meet demand and avoiding the financial strain of ...

When a person receives an unexpected job transfer, it puts additional pressure on the jobholder and his family to find housing on short notice in the new community. The idea of double moving -- ...