Research the number of applications for new building permits, real estate statistics showing the number of homes currently listed, how long they have been on the market and median listing and sales prices at the local level. (mortgagecalculator.biz)
When in 1982 the city widened the gap to six times the building rate, the value of new building permits rose 600 per cent. (religion-online.org)
Despite the competition from a surplus of previously owned homes on the market, new building permits rose 2.5 percent to a 624,000 - unit pace last month. (reuters.com)