Eye On Housing
Housing starts posted a notable drop in November after a strong October pace. Total starts were down 18.7%, falling to a 1.09 million seasonally adjusted annual rate after a 1.34 million rate in October. However, the decline was concentrated in the volatile multifamily sector. The single-family sector continues to show anon improving trend, consistent with rising home builder confidence. According… Read More ›
NAHB’s analysis of Census Data from the Quarterly Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design survey indicates that the number of custom home building starts (homes built on an owner’s land, with either the owner or a builder acting as the general contractor) set a post-recession high for construction starts during the third quarter of 2016. There were 49,000 total custom… Read More ›
The September pace of total housing starts decreased 9% due a substantial decline in multifamily production. Single-family construction continues, as expected, along a positive trend. According to estimates from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, single-family starts increased 8.1% to a 783,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate in September. Year-to-date, single-family housing starts are running almost 10% higher… Read More ›
The July pace of total housing starts increased 2.1% over the June rate, led by strength in the multifamily sector. However, year-to-date measures continue to be consistent with the NAHB forecast of growth for single-family construction this year, as well as a slight dip for apartment development compared to 2015 levels. According to estimates from the Census Bureau and the Department… Read More ›
The June pace of single-family housing starts increased over a downwardly revised May reading, standing at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 778,000 according to estimates from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The June rate marks a 13% gain in the pace of single-family construction on a year-over-year basis. Multifamily starts were up slightly in June, rising to 411,000 starts. However,… Read More ›
The May pace of single-family housing starts was effectively flat relative to April after downward revisions for prior months, standing at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 764,000. However, according to estimates from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the May rate marks a 10% gain in the pace of single-family construction on a year-over-year basis. Yesterday’s increase in the NAHB/Wells… Read More ›
According to NAHB analysis of the most recent Census data of Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design, townhouse construction starts continued to grow at the start of 2016. Over the last four quarters townhouse starts totaled 94,000, a nearly 29% gain over prior year total. For the first quarter of 2016, townhouse starts came in at 22,000, a noticeable… Read More ›
Single-family housing starts were up 3.3% for the month of April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 778,000, according to estimates from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This marks a 4.3% gain in the pace of single-family construction on a year-over-year basis and is consistent with recent flat readings of the NAHB/Wells Fargo… Read More ›
As expected, single-family housing starts fell back in March from the elevated level set in February. According to estimates from the Census Bureau and HUD, the annual pace of single-family starts was 764,000 in March, down considerably from the upwardly revised, post-cycle high rate of 841,000 recorded in February. The decline in March was 9.2% on a monthly basis. However, the monthly drop… Read More ›
Builders started production on 1,178,000 homes in February on a seasonally-adjusted annualized basis. That is a 5.2% increase over a modest slump in January and a 30.9% increase from last February. The increase was broad based with both single-family increasing 7.2% to its highest level since November 2007 and multifamily virtually unchanged at a 0.8% increase. As further evidence of… Read More ›