Sentences with phrase «on housing starts»

Data on housing starts tend to be volatile from month to month and can be subject to sharp revisions.

This year's consensus economist forecast on housing starts estimate is around 1 to 1.1 million.

Today's report on housing starts for April from the Census Bureau and HUD shows a fall back from the revised March annual pace of 1.0 million units to 853 thousand.

«Terrific news on housing starts in January with a solid 10 percent gain,» said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of REALTORS ® (NAR), in a statement.

The following is NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun's reaction to this morning's release from the U.S. Commerce Department on January new home construction: «Terrific news on housing starts in January with a solid 10 % gain.

The NAR analysis comes just as the Census Bureau released data on housing starts for August.

Then, tomorrow and still later in the week, we will get important data points from the housing market, when results on housing starts, building permits, and sales of existing homes are issued.

Jed Kolko, the Chief Economist for the real estate website Trulia, compiles a «housing barometer» that measures how close the real estate market is back to normal based on housing starts, existing - home sales, and delinquency and foreclosure statistics.

In addition, a recent report on housing starts showed that more new buildings are being constructed than at any point since July of 2008, and a revitalized construction industry could do much to bring down unemployment and spur economic activity.

It would be great if you could start a Real Estate News email where you send out a newsletter detailing broad law changes and what they mean, things like FHA loan limit changes, a few stats on housing starts and construction.

The SOC is conducted by the Census Bureau, partly funded by HUD, and the source of the familiar series on housing starts.

«Increased competition from the existing home market, coupled with the elimination of the pent - up demand that built up during the 1990s, will exert downward pressure on housing starts, which will decline to 194,000 units in 2009 from 215,000 in 2008.»

November 17, 2016 The new data on housing starts just came out, showing a 25.5 % increase in the month of October (seasonally - adjusted percent increase from September, which was revised upward).

That's bad news for home builders, who already have big troubles, as June's reports on housing starts, existing - home sales, building permits and unsold - home inventories showed.