Housing starts and the pulling of construction permits continued to decline in February according to a monthly report issued by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Building permits for all residential construction were issued at a seasonally adjusted annual rate...
Housing starts and building permits continue to lag far behind the numbers recorded one year ago according to monthly data issued on Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau and The Department of Housing and Urban Development. Housing permits were issued in January at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of...
Housing starts took another nose-dive in December according to a joint release from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Seasonally adjusted, privately-owned housing starts were at an annual rate of 1,006,000, 14.2 percent below the revised November estimate of...
Housing starts in August hit the lowest level on an annualized basis since July 1995. The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released a joint report on Wednesday showing that privately owned housing starts in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of...
Residential building permits and housing starts continued to fall in July with the latter measure of the nation's economic health dropping more than at any time since January 1997. The monthly report on new residential construction issued by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and...
It's that time again. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the Census Department have released their monthly reports on the state of the new home industry in consumer terms and the attitude of those who make their living by building the homes. The Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce...
While news about the housing industry has generally been upbeat; mortgage rates down yet again this week; home price acceleration leveling off from "irrational exuberance" to a mere euphoria, someone just threw a bit of cold water on the homebuilding sector of the market. On Tuesday, the Census Bureau...