Palm Beach County is no stranger to new construction. Census Bureau permit data count 2,897 single family homes authorized across the county in 2024. New houses mean new garage slabs, from Jupiter in the north to Boca Raton in the south, with West Palm Beach, Wellington, Boynton Beach and Delray Beach in between. Palm Beach […]
The Treasure Valley keeps adding houses. US Census Bureau permit totals show the Boise City metro cleared 8,252 single family houses in 2024 and 7,970 in 2025. Each of those builds brings a fresh garage slab into the metro, from Boise and Meridian out through Eagle, Nampa, Caldwell and Emmett. In focus: this page gathers […]
No metro area in the country permits more new houses than Greater Houston. According to US Census Bureau building permit data, the Houston, Pasadena, The Woodlands metro authorized 46,219 new single family homes in 2025, the highest total of any US metro area, after also leading the nation in 2024 with 52,703. All that building […]
Water shapes a lot about owning a home in Tampa. The city has 127 miles of coastline, flat terrain and a subtropical climate, and 2024 showed what that can mean: Hurricane Helene pushed about 7 feet of surge into Tampa Bay, and Hurricane Milton dropped more than 13 inches of rain on most city neighborhoods. […]
Phoenix garages bake. National Weather Service records show the city averages about 111 days a year at 100°F or hotter and 21 days at 110°F or above (1991 to 2020 normals). Then 2024 broke the mold: Phoenix logged 70 days of 110°F or more and a run of 113 straight days at 100°F or higher, […]
Connecticut winters are tough on concrete, and the garage floor sees the worst of it. National Weather Service climate normals for 1991 to 2020 put Hartford’s typical snowfall at about 52 inches a year, with roughly 126 days when the overnight low reaches freezing or colder. To keep highways passable, CTDOT treats roads with chloride […]
