{"id":25,"date":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/randyodell-com\/2026\/09\/30\/regulation-adds-132k-to-new-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","slug":"regulation-adds-132k-to-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/regulation-adds-132k-to-new-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation Adds $132K to New Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/gordon-odell\/government-regulations-cost-remotion-videos-0d19\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A builder group&#039;s estimate said government rules added ~$132K to the avg. new US home, making regulation a major cost component before buyers move in.<br \/>\nKey cost drivers included code updates, permits, inspections, impact charges, utility hookups, land set-asides, and delays that stretched project timelines before site work began.<br \/>\nThe builder group said code changes alone added ~$40K per home, while energy provisions contributed roughly $9.6K-$21.4K and could take decades to recover.<br \/>\nIt also said &gt;90% of developers faced delays averaging ~7 mo, with &gt;1 yr between zoning applications and the first day of work.<br \/>\nThe broader takeaway: higher rule-related costs can limit how far builders cut prices, complicating efforts to add supply in a nation short ~1.2M homes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A builder group&#039;s estimate said government rules added ~$132K to the avg. new US home, making regulation a major cost component before buyers move in. Key cost drivers included code updates, permits, inspections, impact charges, utility hookups, land set-asides, and delays that stretched project timelines before site work began. The builder group said code changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}