Southeast Construction Magazine ranks the top 10 metros for new housing construction in dollar amount (Columbia: new home)

[nortonguy]

Thumbs up to Columbia and Charleston!

Is the Southeast’s Residential Rebound for Real? | Southeast Construction | McGraw-Hill Construction
The dollar volume of new Southeast residential construction contracts is starting off 2010 at a brisker pace than last year, according to new information from McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of Southeast Construction.

1. Tampa
2. Atlanta
3. Raleigh
4. Orlando
5. Charlotte
6. Miami
7. Jacksonville
8. Charleston
9. Augusta
10. Columbia

[Akhenaton06]

As the article stated, Charleston's increase is probably related to the Boeing announcement. Although the raw gain wasn't that large, Columbia registered the largest yearly gain by percentage of all the cities on the list at 112%. I wonder how the new numbers compare to the pre-recession figures.

[Charlestondata]

Charleston also gets a high number of second homes.

[nortonguy]

I wonder what's driving the 112% in Columbia????

[Skyliner]

Originally Posted by nortonguy

I wonder what's driving the 112% in Columbia????

It seems fairly evident, in my opinion. The data was gathered from two months in 2009 and the same two months in 2010. Columbia had a very low number (comparatively) of new homes during those two months in 2009, and a significantly higher number of new homes during the same two months in 2010. Therefore, the increase percentage equates to a higher number than the other metro areas.