This is a change of -1.75% from last month and -14.64% from one year ago. Housing Starts are the total number of single family houses that started construction in a given month in the US. Housing starts can be viewed as a forward looking metric to gauge the outlook for an economy. ...
Lumber Prices and US Housing Starts Update: December 2024 US new-home construction fell in November as a drop in multifamily projects mitigated a rebound in starts of single-family houses. Since 1952 Madison’s Lumber Reporter has established itself as the most reliable source for North American ...
(I:USHS) Chart data for US Housing Starts from 1959 to 2024. Visually compare against similar indicators, plot min/max/average, compute correlations.
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of homes being built in December plunged to the lowest level in more than two years, a possible sign that developers are anticipating fewer new houses to be sold this year. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that housing starts fell 11.2 percent in December fro...
News Summary: US housing starts highest in 4 years
The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the long-run association among growths in US housing starts, real consumer debt, real GDP and the long-term real interest rate. To carry out this exploratory work, Johansen and Juselius (1990) vector cointegration procedure is applied. Monthly ...
US housing starts rise, PVC stagnates in October Housing permits and starts ticked up in October from the prior month, led by single-family construction that has surpassed year-earlier levels, but contract prices for PVC for construction were flat on the month....
US housing starts near eight-year high; building permits fallLucia Mutikani
Housing starts jumped 5.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.350 million units last month, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. That was the highest level since July 2007. Data for April was revised slightly to show starts falling to a rate of 1.286 million units instead of...