Eye On Housing
Builder and developer confidence in multifamily markets fell in the last quarter of 2020, according to the results of the National Association of Home Builders’ Multifamily Market Survey (MMS). The MMS produces two separate indices: The Multifamily Production Index (MPI), which fell 5 points to 43; and the Multifamily Vacancy Index (MVI), which edged down two points to 42, with… Read More ›
Builder and developer confidence in the multifamily housing market weakened slightly in the third quarter, according to results from NAHB’s Multifamily Market Survey (MMS). The MMS produces two separate indices: The Multifamily Production Index (MPI) and the Multifamily Vacancy Index (MVI). The MPI dropped seven points to 49 in the third quarter of 2019 (from 56 in the second quarter)… Read More ›
Builder and developer confidence in the multifamily market weakened in the first quarter of 2019, according to results from the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Multifamily Market Survey (MMS). The MMS consists of two indices: the Multifamily Production Index (MPI) and the Multifamily Vacancy Index (MVI). The MPI, which measures builder and developer sentiment about current market conditions, dropped… Read More ›
The Multifamily Production Index (MPI) gained seven points to 53 in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) (Figure 1). The MPI measures builder and developer sentiment about current conditions in the apartment and condominium market on a scale of 0 to 100. The index and all of its components are scaled so… Read More ›