housing starts

In the US, consumers have retrenched, housing starts have crashed and a double-dip recession is possible.

Justifying the projection for new housing starts, Crowe said the national inventory of new homes is at a 40-year low.

Residential investment, which is driven by new housing starts, makes up a large chunk of the volatile bit of the economy.

Though March's housing starts were revised up substantially, it was not enough to soften the blow from last month's drop.

Both housing starts and permits fell in July , although this was due to a correction in the multi- family homes segment .

Stocks extended gains after housing starts in the U. S. increased more than forecast in August, a signal the industry is stabilizing.

Housing starts are still down, but if sales continue to strengthen, construction could pick up in the second half of 2009.

FAITH LAPIDUS: Just last week, the Commerce Department reported an unexpected drop in December in the number of housing starts by builders.

Yesterday it was announced that housing starts rose 22% between January and February - the sharpest monthly increase in almost two decades.

The big housing number of the week will come on Tuesday when the Commerce Department reports on housing starts for June.

A sustained decline in housing starts to cause the economy to slow down and possibly head into recession.

Housing starts are at less than half their peak, and builders are continuing to cut back.

However, after the recession ended, housing starts typically rebounded strongly after inventory fell and new home sales picked up.

Combined with figures showing another big slide in US housing starts, they prompted sharp falls on US and European stock markets.

Or name the economic statistic - home prices, new housing starts, oil prices, unemployment rates or GDP growth.

Key U. S. data releases next week include housing starts, building permits, existing home sales and durable goods.

The increase in housing starts was mainly due to a big bounce in the volatile multi-family category.

Housing starts rallied a little in June but are still at historic lows (see chart).

Housing starts were 36. 5 per cent fewer than the same period a year earlier.

Ms Ulrich said a sharp rebound in new housing starts in September boded well for the months ahead.

Government data last week showed a rebound in U. S. housing starts and new building permits in February.

Figures yesterday showed housing starts down nearly 30 per cent in November, their fifth consecutive month of decline.

Other metrics, like housing starts and new-home sales, might point upward before then.

The fall in housing starts in May was the biggest in 14 months and took starts well below the 650, 000 units expected by financial markets.

The latest data show declines in both builder confidence and new housing starts.

With 30-year fixed mortgage rates now at about 7%, single family housing starts have returned to the brisk pace of the mid-1980s.

Other figures may show housing starts fell to the lowest level since July.

The world economy is expected to slow in 2007, led by the US, where the housing market and housing starts weakened in 2006.

Economists say housing starts are likely to rise 17% this year, compared with a 7. 3% increase in 2010.

Housing starts continue to languish at around a third of normal levels.

Housing starts are down. Manufacturers have cut back.

A large numBer of new housing starts this year.

Consider housing starts , which have fallen to their lowest level in 50 years . That's bad news for the near term.

Single-family housing starts have declined by 60 per cent since early 2006, but have only recently fallen below single-family home demand.

"Housing starts are continuing to struggle with mortgage rates at 4%, " he says.

Most experts forecast a mild decline in housing starts.

A 16. 8% plunge in housing starts in January suggests no bottom is in sight there.

On the data front we have US building permits and housing starts for August due at 0830EDT.

Housing starts in November fell to a unit rate of 1. 19 million.

New housing starts fell more than two percent in May.

Wang Tao, China economist at UBS, estimates that new housing starts fell to 2. 2% year-on-year in October.

seasonal adjustments for housing starts must be made in mid-winter .

The pace of housing starts is down 33% from its peak in January 2006.

Housing starts are expected to rise in April to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 650, 000 units from 626, 000 in March.

Housing starts could be forced as low as 800, 000 to clear the market.

Housing starts climbed 6 percent to a 550, 000 annual rate, according to the median estimate of 76 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.

That suggests construction of about 5. 4 billion square feet of housing, the equivalent of 30% of total new housing starts in 2010.

Housing starts fell for the seventh month running, sliding 16. 8 per cent from December and 56. 2 per cent over the past year.

But it is also because last month's fall in housing starts by 15 per cent to 1. 5m was much sharper than most economists expected.

In the seven construction busts since 1960, housing starts fell, on average, by 51% from their peak.

Housing starts fell 6. 1 per cent in July to an annual rate of 1. 381m units, the lowest point since 1997, government data showed.

A 16. 8%plunge in housing starts in January suggestsnobottom in sight there.

Data on December housing starts, expected on Wednesday, is forecast to show 580, 000 new units from 574, 000 in November.

At some point, indicators such as consumer confidence and housing starts will bottom out, but where is that point?

But this has not fully curtailed China's real-estate bubble: Housing starts rose about 40 percent last year.

Yesterday's February housing starts data, for example, were blinding, up by 22 per cent versus January, the biggest jump in almost 20 years.

The construction of 13m square metres of subsidised housing, which began last year, comprised 50 per cent of housing starts in 2010.

Compared to the same period last year, housing starts were down 54. 2 percent.

Recent improvements in housing starts, albeit from a very low base, are therefore a positive sign

In the next 30 minutes we get US housing starts and initial jobless claim data along with the Philly Fed;

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