With all of the fuss about the recession and the rising cost of petrol and other transported goods there has been a slight slump in the new home builder companies which are not taking on as many building jobs as they normally would each year. Some of these companies in America have gone bankrupt and folded into remission because of the lack of work they are getting as well as the extra costs of their goods and services needed to build the house. Because of the rising cost of petrol this affects many of the items used in building a house because trucks are used to carry most of the items to and from the building site. Even home removal and delivery has increased dramatically in price since the recession and the increase in fuel prices. Unfortunately for some of the American home building companies this was too much to handle and their businesses could not cope with the extra payments.

Many of the more reputable new home builders where able to survive the recession under a large amount of stress and often budget cuts. Without the budget cuts the costs would have been too much to bear for the smaller companies while the bigger companies where just trying to maximize profits by reducing their costs. This is a smart move in a recession so that the bigger companies have more stability and are in no danger of losing profit for the period of bad economic times. Different homes have different cost which were all needed to be reduced by the home builders while the home owners did not see any relief in the price of the buildings but where more likely to see the price increase by at least two to five percent from the year 2007. Some homes have increased in significantly large proportions compared to the smaller increases of five percent.