{"id":1076,"date":"2026-05-26T21:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:08:38","slug":"the-triangle-is-booming-but-not-all-corners-are-growing-the-same-way-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"The Triangle is booming \u2013 but not all corners are growing the same way, report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\">Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nahb.org\/news-and-economics\/housing-economics\/housings-economic-impact\/households-priced-out-by-higher-house-prices-and-interest-rates\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">economic headwinds<\/a> like rising land costs and high interest rates, the Triangle is booming \u2014 but it\u2019s uneven, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/homeowners\/cities-building-the-most-new-homes.html#national-trends\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">new data from ConsumerAffairs<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1074\">Disruptive year shuffles list of Triangle\u2019s biggest employers. Here\u2019s a closer look<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Raleigh metro area, including Cary, Apex, Morrisville and Holly Springs, continued to operate like \u201cone of the nation\u2019s top builder metros,\u201d ranking No. 14 out of 150 in an analysis of new home construction and sales during the first two months of 2026, the research platform said.<\/p>\n<p>The metro issued 2,741 building permits \u2014 No. 12 nationally \u2014 and recorded 1,025 new construction home sales, placing it No. 11 in the country and more than doubling the sales pace from early 2025, analysis showed using U.S. Census Bureau and Zillow data.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh\u2019s numbers look nothing like the median U.S. metro, which recorded just 575 permits and 172 new home sales during the same period, said Rebecca Sowell, lead researcher at ConsumerAffairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaleigh\u2019s activity levels were several times higher than what we observed in a typical U.S. market,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Much of that scale comes from the region\u2019s mega communities. Among them: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/business\/real-estate-news\/article315709442.html\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">Veridea<\/a>, the 1,100-acre \u201cmini city\u201d currently under construction in Apex; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/business\/real-estate-news\/article315673434.html\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">Wendell Falls<\/a>, the 1,100-acre master-planned community in its final phase just east of Raleigh. Both are expected to add thousands of new homes to Wake County over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>But just west of Raleigh, the Durham\u2013Chapel Hill metro area tells a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1073\">Large alligator calmly walked house to house like a stray dog, NC officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It ranked No. 53 in the ConsumerAffairs analysis, unchanged from last year. The metro issued 928 building permits and recorded 256 new construction home sales during the first two months of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Its construction pace remains \u201chealthy but far more moderate,\u201d Sowell said, shaped by less available land and a development pattern built around infill, townhomes, and redevelopment rather than large master-planned communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still a relatively active level of new construction compared to many metros nationwide,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte ranked No. 9 nationally, issuing more than 3,000 permits and recording over 1,000 new home sales \u2014 the only other North Carolina metro in the top 15.<\/p>\n<p>Texas metros dominate the very top of the list, but Sowell notes that the Triangle remains one of the strongest performing regions outside Texas, thanks largely to Raleigh\u2019s scale and sales velocity.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with the latest Triangle real estate news by subscribing to On the Market, The News &amp; Observer&#8217;s free weekly real estate newsletter. Look for it in your inbox every Thursday morning. Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1071\">Store closing at Crabtree mall in Raleigh offers discounts. What we know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ConsumerAffairs data shows Raleigh and Wake County driving a booming but uneven Triangle housing market with high permits and new home sales in early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-todays-edition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Triangle is booming \u2013 but not all corners are growing the same way, report shows - Durham Moving Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=1076\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Triangle is booming \u2013 but not all corners are growing the same way, report shows - 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