If there is something you would like to know about housing in America - no matter how important, inconsequential, or obscure - the American Housing Survey (AHS) probably covers it. How many total housing units exist in the U.S.? 128,203,000. How many of these consist of one room and how many of 10 or...
The Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development jointly released their monthly report on new home sales early Wednesday morning. The report showed new home sales declined once again, this time to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 588,000 units. The revised December figure...
The sales of new houses continued to decline in December according to monthly data jointly released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sales of new one-family houses during December were consummated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 604,000, down...
There was the tiniest ray of sunshine in the September New Residential Sales Report issued on Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Good news is usually relative but in the current environment most of us take what we can get and the news that new...
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...
Sales of new homes improved slightly in July with a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 870,000, up 2.8 percent above the revised June sales figures. The June number had been particularly dismal at an annualized 834,000 units, well below the 895,000 units analysts had been expecting. The final figure...
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...
Both the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and the Department of Commerce (Census Bureau) /U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released figures on Tuesday confirming that U.S. housing sales are continuing on a record trajectory. NAR announced that existing-home sales hit an all time...