2025 Economic and Housing Market Update On-Demand

NAHB’s Chief Economist Dr. Robert Dietz provides a detailed, data-based examination of the economy and the home building market. What is the state of inflation, economic growth, monetary policy and the outlook for interest rates after the consequential election of 2024.  Will housing affordability improve in the quarters ahead via regulatory policy improvement, and how much easing will the Fed undertake? With a unique focus on the supply-side of the housing market, this presentation discusses opportunities and challenges facing the residential construction sector for the rest of the decade. Rob also provides analysis of specific types of home building and the demographic needs for single-family construction, multifamily development and remodeling. Dr. Dietz  examines factors such as tariffs, inflation, and immigration and how they affect the economic outlook.

Objectives:

1. Learn about current macroeconomic conditions, including economic growth and interest rates
2. Explore details of current residential construction supply-side factors, such as labor and material pricing anda availability
3. Discussion of the current edition of the single-family, multifamily and remodeling forecast for the coming years
4. Data focused dicussion including Q&A with a nationally recognized chief economist

Agenda:

1. Overall macroeconomic conditions
2. Construction sector supply-side update
3. Building and economic forecasts

SPEAKER

Robert Dietz, Ph.D., Chief Economist
National Association of Home Builders | NAHB

Robert Dietz, Ph.D. is the Chief Economist for NAHB, where he leads a team of 12 economists whose responsibilities include forecasts of housing and economic trends, survey research, and home building industry and policy analysis. Dr. Dietz has published academic research on the private and social benefits of homeownership, federal tax expenditure estimation, and other housing topics. He is the nation's leading analyst of the residential construction industry.

Dr. Dietz has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy on housing, economic and tax issues. He is a member of the Blue Chip, Wall Street Journal and other top national forecasting panels, has co-chaired the National Association for Business Economics construction/real estate group, and is commonly cited on CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and NPR.

Prior to joining NAHB in 2005, Robert worked as an economist for the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation where he estimated the federal budget impact of tax law changes associated with housing and real estate issues. He is a native of Dayton, Ohio, attended George Washington University as an undergraduate and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from The Ohio State University in 2003.