it is still lower than historical levels. Before the pandemic even hit, housing starts were below figures reported in previous decades. The following chart highlights housing starts of privately ...

There’s greater slack in the new-construction market now than a few years ago, giving buyers some leverage in certain housing ...

Housing Starts refer to the number of new residential construction projects that have begun during any particular month. Estimates of housing starts include units in structures being totally ...

When they say housing leads the U.S. economy into and out of a recession, they’re correct, as housing starts fall into a ... As we can see in the chart below, 5-unit permit data is already ...

Here is the historical series for total privately ... growth in the US population since 1959. Here is a chart of housing starts as a percent of the population. We've added a linear regression ...

Here is the historical series for total privately ... growth in the US population since 1959. Here is a chart of housing starts as a percent of the population. We've added a linear regression ...

Historical trends in economic cycles are clear: when housing permits and housing starts decline together ... As shown in the chart below, the Fed has repeatedly overlooked this red flag in ...

As seen in the chart below, housing starts tend to be more volatile, month to month. In the present case, however, they were only slightly higher than the previous month at an annual pace of 1. ...

Single-family housing starts, which account for the bulk of homebuilding, jumped 18.0% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.143 million units last month, the Commerce Department's Census ...

The number of housing starts ticked up in August as mortgage ... in 2.5% mortgage rates — the lowest level in postwar modern history. The low rates added to an explosion of homebuying and ...

So-called housing starts fell to a 1.46 million annual pace from 1.53 million in November, the government said Thursday. That’s how many houses would be built over an entire year if construction ...