Remove 2006 Remove Buyers Remove Construction
article thumbnail

Housing starts are rising, despite cost to buyers

Housing Wire

More than a quarter of single-family homes for sale during the first quarter were new-construction homes — nearly 26%, and March housing starts jumped nearly 20% month over month to the highest level since 2006, per the latest report from Redfin. A healthy housing market is considered roughly six months of supply.

Buyers 476
article thumbnail

Housing starts increase, but builders still lack supplies

Housing Wire

million in June, as construction companies broke ground on a greater number of both single-family and multifamily buildings last month. It’s the third-highest number of housing starts builders have broken ground on in one month since May of 2006, a sign of strong buyer demand. Housing starts increased 6.3% to a rate of 1.64

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Building material prices take their toll on new home sales

Housing Wire

In order to account for uncertain prices and availability of materials, homebuilders are holding off on making homes available until they are further along in the construction process. to the highest level since 2006. This is not due to a lack of demand; quite the opposite, Speakman noted.

article thumbnail

What’s Happening in New Home Construction and Sales?

McKissock

Residential construction and new home sales have been making quite a few headlines lately. Keep reading to catch up on the latest stories and market data related to new home construction and sales. ” New home construction in the news. ” New home construction in the news. from February to a 1.02 “The U.S.

article thumbnail

How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. This period was also during a lull in our prime-age labor force growth, so demand was soft during the years 2006-2011.

Inventory 545
article thumbnail

As prices rise, builder confidence falls from record highs

Housing Wire

In December, all HMI indices, including current sales conditions, sales expectations and traffic of prospective buyers, also fell four points from their previous highest recorded readings in November. Policymakers should take note to avoid increasing regulatory costs associated with land development and residential construction,” Fowke said.

article thumbnail

Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

Housing Wire

But we should ask: Why is inventory so much lower now if purchase application data is at 2009 levels — a period in time when inventory was rising noticeably in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009? However, the spike in inventory that we saw from 2006 to 2011 can be attributed to the massive credit bubble we had from 2002 to 2005.

Inventory 523