Housing starts, a measure of U.S. home building, rose 9.6% in August to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.356 million.
U.S. Housing Starts Rise Less Than Expected, Permits FallHousing starts rose less than expected in March while building permits fell, pointing to underlying weakness in the housing market.Fox Business
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- New construction of U.S. homes rebounded in August after falling in the previous month, but building permits saw a steep decline, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.The report showed that privately-owned housing starts in August were 12.2 percent abov...
(RTTNews) - New residential construction in the U.S. unexpectedly saw a substantial decrease in the month of January, according to a report released by the Commerce Department on Friday.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. housing starts declined sharply in December due to a big drop of single-family housing construction, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. Overall housing starts declined 8.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.192 million units in December...
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. housing starts declined in February due to a tumble in the construction of multi-family housing units, the Commerce Department said on Friday. Overall housing starts declined 7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.236 million units in February...
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S. construction of new homes plunged 14.2 percent in December to an adjusted annual rate of 1.006 million units, the weakest level since May 1991, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The December figure for housing starts was far smaller than the1.150...
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Groundbreakings on new U.S. homes surged in December to a 13-year high, giving the housing market momentum heading into the new year amid low mortgage rates, solid job growth and optimistic buyers and builders....
Housing starts rose 0.2% in May to a seasonally adjusted 2.009 million annualized units from April's downwardly-revised 2.005 million, the government said. Read full government release. Economists were looking for higher starts at a 2.03 million unit rate, a decrease from the previously-estimated...