Sentences with phrase «total housing starts»

Despite 2014's progress, total housing starts remain far below an average pace of about 1.5 million over the 20 years leading up to the housing bubble's 2006 peak.

NAHB is forecasting 991,000 total housing starts in 2014, up 6.6 percent from 930,000 units in 2013.

A big jump up in single family starts combined with an anticipated rebound in multifamily to push the annual pace of total housing starts above 1.3 million in October.

National Housing Outlook Key Housing Market Indicators 2004 2005 2006 Actual Forecasts Forecasts Total housing starts (units) 233,431 * 218,900 * 200,200 Total single - detached houses 129,171 * 117,600 * 106,200 Total multiple housing units 104,260 * 101,300 * 94,000 Total MLS (R) sales (xx) 460,703 * 455,900 * 433,700 Average MLS selling price ($)(xx) 226,283 * 246,700 * 258,700

While total housing starts as reported by the Census Bureau fell 3 % for the month, the first two months of the fourth quarter set a construction pace (an average of 875,000 starts rate) that is 13 % higher than the rate of building in previous quarter.

Total housing starts reached 5,738 units in 2007, the best performance in 20 years.

2014 is expected to see total housing starts level out to 181,100 units before ticking up slightly in 2015 to 182,100.

Total housing starts fell 7 % in February from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.236 million, the Commerce Department said Friday.

This, in tandem with low - rise homes (singles, semis and rows), pushed total housing starts higher,» said Ted Tsiakopoulos, Ontario regional economist for CMHC.

Single - family starts, most forecasts assert, represent about three out of four total housing starts during that period — from Trends in Real Estate 2018 report from Urban Land Insitute.

While total housing starts posted strong gains in January, new home sales numbers were somewhat disappointing.

Total housing starts stood at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 894,000 in October, up 41.9 percent year - over-year with the single - family portion rising 35.3 percent.

Expect total housing starts to increase 16 percent year - over-year and total home sales to increase 3 percent.

Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected the government to report that the seasonally adjusted annualized rate of total housing starts inched up to 1.04 million in December from an originally reported 1.03 million in November.

«I expect 1.1 million total housing starts in 2013, 1.7 million to 1.8 million in 2014 and over 1.8 million in 2015.»

Forecasting total housing starts to increase by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 and expecting to see total home sales to increase by about 5 percent over that time period to the best sales pace in eight years.

Moreover, it is important to know that the monthly volume of total housing starts is staying approximately at the same level since April 2015.

Total housing starts reached 6,007 units in 2007, the highest level in 24 years.

Meanwhile, the total housing starts in the Windsor Census Metropolitan Area was stable at 1,436 units in September, compared to 1,420 units in August and housing starts in Thunder Bay Census Metropolitan Area were trending at 194 units in September, up from 161 units in August.

Although well below the anomalous spike of December, the February 2013 five - plus starts rate appears strong compared to any other month from recent history (the same general pattern seen in total housing starts).

The Northeast, Midwest and South posted declines in total housing starts of 20.3 percent, 13.3 percent and 6.1 percent, respectively.

Total housing starts have stayed above an annual rate of one million starts per year since last March and single family homes have been higher than 700,000 units at annual rates since June.

National Housing Outlook — Key Housing Market Indicators 2004 2005 2006 Actual Forecasts Forecasts ------------------------- Total housing starts (units) 233,431 * 223,600 * 207,200 Total single - detached houses 129,171 * 118,600 * 107,700 Total multiple housing units 104,260 * 105,000 * 99,500 Total MLS sales (xx) 460,717 * 476,000 * 453,700 Average MLS selling price ($)(xx) 226,279 * 249,400 * 261,500 Source: CMHC Housing Market Outlook, Canada Edition, Fourth Quarter 2005.

For all of 2014, there were 1.01 million total housing starts, the highest annual total since 2007 and up almost 9 % from 2013.