The strongest markets for home builders include San Diego; Southern California; Texas’s Rio Grande Valley; St. George, Utah; and Orlando, according to a Metrostudy analysis.
The Wall Street Journal's "Developments" blog first picked up the report.
A few highlights were:
San Diego is looking good right now. In that area, construction began on 440 new homes during the last three months of 2011, a 46.7 percent increase over the previous quarter.
Northern Virginia's Washington, D.C., suburbs, which had been doing better than many places, seem to be stumbling now.
Las Vegas and Central California areas away from cities had troubles already and got worse during the quarter.
Metrostudy bases the analysis on data gathered by going out and counting how many homes are actually going up.
