Tag Archives: Housing Permits

While an economist calls the report “upbeat,” the year-over-year gains are “in our rearview mirror.”

Click through to read more on January’s data and what leading insiders had to say about what this means for the market in 2020.

Also on The Week Ahead, are reports on existing home sales across the nation and what the National Association of Homebuilders/Wells Fargo Homebuilders Index found.

While housing authorizations rose more than 40% year-over-year, home sale prices recorded the largest increase since 2018.

The May Residential Housing Report from the Census Bureau contained both good and bad news, but one bright spot could cause issues moving forward.

Economists speculate about what the latest construction data means for the market moving forward.

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

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?