Immigration and its impact on the Boston real estate market
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Immigration and its impact on the Boston real estate market
Report: Immigrants drive housing production in top US homebuilding metros
Immigrant Share of Construction Trades in U.S. metros during 2019-2023. (Image courtesy of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and Datawrapper)
Immigrant laborers play a key role in the housing pipeline, especially for the nation’s top homebuilding metros, according to a new study from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Research showed a disproportionately high share of foreign-born workers active in the construction trades nationally in 2024. While immigrants made up one in five workers nationally, they composed one in three workers in the construction trades sector.
The highest percentage of foreign-born trade workers occurred in the seven metros that issued at least 150,000 building permits between 2019–2023. In these locations, immigrants composed 54% of the trades workforce.
When categorized by specialty, foreign-born tradespeople most commonly worked as construction laborers or carpenters in 2024. They composed three-fifths of all plasterers and drywall installers in 2024 and half of all roofers, painters and carpet, tile and floor installers.
With foreign-born workers playing such an outsized role in housing production and homebuilding, negative immigration trends could signal danger for the market, according to experts.
“There is a disproportionately high share of foreign-born workers in the construction trades nationally and that share is even higher in these communities,” said Harvard Senior Research Analyst Riordan Frost. “The recent slowdown in immigration will limit foreign-born labor for the trades, however, potentially worsening chronic labor shortages and constraining the ability to build and remodel housing.”
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Immigration and its impact on the Boston real estate market
One of the more controversial issues on the news today is that of immigration. Whether you’re for or against the current policies, there’s one thing we all can agree on: it will have an impact on the local Boston real estate market.
The most recent research that I can find on how immigration is impacting the Boston real estate market is from AS/COA and Partnership for a New American Economy, which provides an interactive map showing “the net change in a county’s immigrant population from 2000 to 2010 and the corresponding effect on median home values.”
The study was conducted from 2000 – 2010. The findings are as follows:
*In Suffolk County 27.7% of residents are foreign born.
*The net change in immigrant population from 2000-2010 in Suffolk County +18,804
*Immigration in Suffolk County increased median home price by $2,172.
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