 But then there's Twin Cities area builder Dale Wills, who told WCCO-TV in Minneapolis that his crews are racing to keep up. We have had one house in the last five months get finished without it being sold. There is a real demand for affordability of first-time buyers because we're building them as fast as we can build them, they sell. The new home sales report came just a week after we learned that housing starts unexpectedly fell to a nearly four-year low in May.