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Early ’23 Uptick Buoys Private Builders Who Expected Worse 

The question of whether January will go down as a spasmic “head fake,” a seasonal uptick, or the bona fide onset of a mid-2020s triple-cohort market-rate housing juggernaut gets tricker by the day. Especially, now. We’ve hit mid-February, after days of eye-opening new-order activity that bookended the final weeks of 2022 and the first weeks […]