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The North Carolina Home Builders Association and the governor-appointed state Building Code Council have battled all year over proposed updates to energy efficiency standards for new homes. With the council poised to adopt the changes, the Republican-controlled legislature stepped in to pass a bill that would block any new standards. Email messages show that the home builders lobby helped write the legislation. Energy efficiency advocates are crying foul on the bill, which the governor vetoed and could come up for an override vote this week.

The North Carolina Building Code Council has put off until December a vote on updating energy efficiency rules for new home and office construction.

More debate is expected this week in a fight over whether to modernize North Carolina's building code, including rules that would require new houses to be more energy efficient.

There's a battle in Raleigh over energy efficiency standards and building codes that has implications for both North Carolina's climate change efforts and the short- and long-term costs of homeownership.

House hunters in Charlotte might be in for a bit of a break when it comes to finding a home, but prices are still at record highs.

A new report from UNC Charlotte provides a clearer picture of how Charlotte's affordable housing crisis worsened during the pandemic.

Home sales in the Charlotte region fell nearly 20.8% in April compared with a year ago as the coronavirus outbreak and stay home-orders kept buyers on the…