{"id":1084,"date":"2026-08-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:00:00","slug":"government-regulations-add-nearly-132k-to-cost-of-new-home-builders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/government-regulations-add-nearly-132k-to-cost-of-new-home-builders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Government regulations add nearly $132K to cost of new home, builders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Government regulations add about $132,000, or 26.4%, to the cost of a typical new single-family home, worsening housing affordability. Regulatory costs have risen 40% since 2021, with building code changes adding the largest burden. Delays and extra development standards are common, contributing to a housing shortage of 1.2 million homes. Builder confidence remains low, with many cutting prices and offering incentives.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/government-regulations-add-132k-new-home-costs\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government regulations add about $132,000, or 26.4%, to the cost of a typical new single-family home, worsening housing affordability. Regulatory costs have risen 40% since 2021, with building code changes adding the largest burden. Delays and extra development standards are common, contributing to a housing shortage of 1.2 million homes. Builder confidence remains low, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}