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NEW Housing Starts Hit 12-Year Low; Multi-family to the Rescue

Thu, Sep 20 2007, 7:00 AM

Housing starts in August hit the lowest level on an annualized basis since July 1995 The news would have been even worse if it were not for a subs...

NEW Housing Starts Hit Ten Year Low While Builder Confidence Sets Even A Longer Record

Fri, Aug 17 2007, 7:00 AM

Residential building permits and housing starts continued to fall in July with the latter measure of the nation's economic health dropping more ...

NEW Housing News Turns The Stock Market To Mush

Fri, Jul 27 2007, 7:00 AM

It's been a rough week for the housing market. Homebuilder confidence is in the gutter, existing home sales fell substantially and the bad news eman...

NEW Builders Confidence Hits 26 Year Low as Permits and Starts Fall Again

Fri, Jul 20 2007, 7:00 AM

The homebuilding industry is obviously in distress. But, in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben B...

NEW Home Builder Confidence Is Down And Permitting Appears To Reflect It

Tue, May 22 2007, 7:00 AM

NAHB's chief economist David Seiders said, "The pattern of building permits clearly shows that the dramatic downward correction in housing productio...

NEW Housing Market Shaky Not Plummeting

Wed, Mar 21 2007, 7:00 AM

Two reports that contribute to the picture of the housing industry were released on Monday. After news from the

NEW Housing Permits and Starts Slide But Builder Confidence Rising

Tue, Feb 20 2007, 8:00 AM

Right on the heels of the National Association of Realtors rather glum report on the

NEW Housing Starts, Permits and Builder Confidence Stabilize In Recent Surveys

Tue, Dec 26 2006, 8:00 AM

Housing permits and starts in November were mixed when compared to October levels according to figures released this week by the U.S. Census Bure...

NEW Housing Starts Dive But Builder and Buyer Confidence Are Up

Mon, Nov 20 2006, 8:00 AM

The Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have released October figures on building permits and housing starts and ...

NEW Housing Starts and Builder Confidence Show Slight Improvement

Thu, Oct 19 2006, 7:00 AM

The various new home construction indicators tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development were mixed i...

NEW Housing Bubble Watch: New Home Construction Reports

Tue, Sep 19 2006, 7:00 AM

Two monthly housing market indicators have been released so far this week, both relating broadly to home construction and showing a continued slowin...

NEW Housing Bubble Watch: Housing Permits, Starts, Builder Confidence Fall

Tue, Aug 22 2006, 7:00 AM

It's that time again. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the Census Department have released their monthly reports on the state of t...

NEW Housing Bubble Watch: Building Stats Slip As Does Builder Confidence

Fri, Jul 21 2006, 7:00 AM

The two monthly reports that measure the health of the home construction industry were released this week. The U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Departmen...

NEW Housing Bubble Watch: Reports Paint Confusing Picture

Wed, Jul 5 2006, 7:00 AM

The usual spate of monthly reports on new home sales, existing home sales, housing starts, and builder confidence were all released recently. Taken to...