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The top ten percentage growth markets through the early part of the year are scattered around the country — except for the four markets located in California.
This steady diet of news about an economy gone soft has created a case of national nervousness that has some predicting, as Chicken Little once did, “the sky is falling!”
Expenditures for improvements and repairs of residential properties in the third quarter 2000 was estimated at $149 billion, according to the U.S. Commerce Department Census Bureau.
The Labor Department's construction materials composite price index increased by 0.3% between January and February. This was the first rise in the composite index after ten consecutive months of...
Total housing starts during February of this year were at a seasonally-adjusted annualized rate of 1.647 million units - an extraordinarily high level, given the current state of consumer...
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) rose by a solid 7.1% between February and March, after declining for five consecutive months. Consumers' assessment of ongoing economic...
The new year got off to an encouragingly good start for the housing market, given the deteriorating state of consumer confidence (until March) and slower job and income gains.
Seven of 2000's top ten areas (in terms of sheer volume of permitted new residential construction) were able to build upon their year-earlier totals through the first two months of 2001.
Fannie Mac economists expect the portion of refinancings leading to higher loan amounts in 2001 to fall as refinancing volume increases.
Construction materials product annualized inflation averaged 2.1% during the first six months of 2000, but average prices fell during the final six months of last year. For the year as a whole,...
Spending in the major replacements category, though, rose to a record-high level during the April—June period of 2000. At a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of $36.8 billion, secondquarter...
With a new presidential administration coming in and tech stocks taking a dive, many construction market forecasters seem to want to err on the side of caution. But while the rest of the...
According to the revised Census Bureau C-50 figures, remodeling expenditures totaled $142.9 billion in 1999, nearly 20 percent more than the $120 billion that had been estimated by the NAHB using...
Seeing signs that high consumer confidence, high job growth and increasing wages will spur continued strength in the home building industry next year, D.R. Horton chief executive Don Tomnitz, also...
September 2000 total housing starts were at a seasonally-adjusted annualized level of 1.530 million units, a slight 0.3% increase from the August total. The September starts pace this year was 6.0...
The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) fell by 5.1% between September and October, after rising by 1.2% the month before.
