Owens Corning conducted a housing survey of 1,217 households to find out who intended to purchase a new home in the next 18 months and what kind of home they were interested in buying.
Aug. 1, 2006
Owens Corning conducted a housing survey of 1,217 households to find out who intended to purchase a new home in the next 18 months and what kind of home they were interested in buying. The following charts compare the intention to buy to the actual 2005 housing market. The results show a fluctuation between what households intended to buy and what they purchased.
% Intending to Buy or Build in the Next 18 Months
Existing site-built home
59%
New site-built home
29%
New HUD home
7%
New modular home
5%
2005 Housing Market
7 million existing site-built homes
80%
1.6 million new site-built homes
18%
130,000 HUD homes
1.5%
40,000 modular homes
0.5%
% of Those Intending to Buy or Build (House Value, including land)