NBC News modeled a 3 bedroom house and discovered that tariffs added more than $ 4,000 to the total costs.
Canada wood? That will be another $ 534.
The main appliances of China? Add $ 445 great.
The new houses in the United States will become more expensive thanks to the tariff agenda of President Donald Trump, which is expected to increase the costs of a wide variety of materials that are going to build houses.
An NBC news analysis of construction materials and import data found that the total cost of building a medium -ranking single -range house could increase by more than $ 4,000, an estimate that industry experts that reviewed the analysis called conservative. An April survey of the National Association of Housing Builders estimated in the tariff impacts at $ 10,900 per house. None of the analyzes included labor costs.
Robert Dietz, chief economist of the National Association of Housing Builders, said that tariffs have an impact beyond their direct cost, since they send uncertainty through the supply chain and leave the insecure builders of how to plan the future.
“Around three quarters of housing builders at this time have difficulty setting their homes for buyers due to uncertainty due to the costs of construction inputs,” said Dietz.
The United States remains in a housing shortage that has increased costs. The NBC News housing buyers index, which measures how difficult a local real estate market is, has remained at a level of extreme difficulty for more than two years. And conversations about how to encourage the construction of more homes have become an important part of US political discussions, especially among some Democrats.
Meanwhile, Trump has continued chasing an aggressive tariff agenda and promising that the United States will sign commercial agreements, most of which have not yet materialized.
Whether tariffs are implemented, paid or invested, the timeline for cost impacts will vary significantly among suppliers, materials and regions. Dietz said that, although some suppliers can initially absorb parts of tariff costs: “In general terms, it would expect consumers to pay for most of the rate.”
NBC News modeled the cost of the materials for a single -family house of 1,800 square feet and then analyzed the import and survey data of the United States Trade Commission and the annual manufacturing survey of the Census Office to determine which countries dominate the housing construction supply chain. While some fundamental materials such as concrete are obtained in the country, others, such as electrical equipment, lighting and accessories, depend largely on imports.
The products of China, Mexico and Canada, countries that are currently tariffed at high rates, are responsible for the highest increases in projected costs in our model home. We arrive at this by calculating a weighted rate rate for each article based on the proportion of imports of each country and the rate rate for that country, with the assumption that the total cost of each rate was transmitted to the consumer.
The materials imported mainly from China would add $ 1,708 to house costs, Canadian products would contribute $ 1,300 and Mexican imports would add $ 981.
Take wood, for example. NBC News calculated that a typical house of 1,800 square feet requires approximately 14,400 feet of wood wood, for a total of approximately $ 7,762 at wholesale prices. Almost a third of the American wood supply is imported, and Canada supplied almost 80% of the $ 14.5 billion of the United States in annual imports in 2021. A 23% weighted rate could increase wood prices by 7%, adding approximately $ 534 to framing costs at home alone.
Show down to see how rates could increase prices during each construction phase.
