Tag Archives: Housing Completions

Single-family housing starts broke above the 900K-mark in June according to the latest Census Bureau data. Experts explain the trends behind these numbers and what they foretell about the ongoing housing supply challenges.

Housing starts were down 7 percent month over month according to the data for February released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Housing starts were at around 1.23 million ...

Homebuilding across the U.S. rose to a high led by increased activity in single-family housing construction, in what is being seen as a good start to the housing ...

Housing starts are on the rise around the country, particularly in the Northeast. But how is the rest of the country faring?

According to one expert, the rise in housing permits will greatly benefit "inventory-constrained homebuyers."

Even with the increase, and the best year for housing starts in nearly a decade, more is needed in order to overcome the ongoing shortage of available homes for sale, according to one economist.

Analysts said that housing starts still had room to grow even after a large October spike. But things did not exactly go that way for starts in November.

Housing starts are growing at their fastest pace in nine years, but the numbers are still way down from historical norms. What does this mean for the market overall?

On the surface, the latest news was not good for new residential construction. A closer analysis of the data, however, shows that the outlook is not so gloomy.

Analysts had been expecting a decline in housing starts in July's residential construction report, but instead they received some good news when the report was released Tuesday.