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DataDigest: Construction costs easing for homebuilders

Housing Wire

New home construction exploded early in the pandemic as soaring home demand squeezed existing inventory nationwide, giving homebuilders a much bigger share of a shrinking pie. Index values for most construction inputs are down from 2022 but remain above pre-pandemic levels. Index values for December published last week.

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Residential construction jobs slowly return

Housing Wire

The construction sector added a total of 31,000 jobs in November, on par with the two prior months. Specialty contractors showed the largest gains with an increase of 13,000 jobs, while persons employed in construction of buildings, and civil and heavy engineering rose by 10,000 and 8,000 jobs, respectively. While this is a 0.4%

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Residential construction jobs now 7.6% above pre-COVID level

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After a month of very little change in April , the construction sector had a solid month of job growth in May, according to the U.S. Construction gained 36,000 jobs in May, with residential building adding 5,000 jobs and residential specialty trade contractors gain 11,700 jobs. The post Residential construction jobs now 7.6%

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Job gains exceed expectations in December

Housing Wire

million increase of 2022. While this is below the job growth in 2021 and 2022, when the economy was rebounding from the sharp job losses in 2020, it is still a much higher pace of job growth than we had before the pandemic,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said in a statement. With December’s numbers in, a total of 2.7

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Considering the jobs report, is the Fed risking a recession?

Housing Wire

The Federal Reserve won’t pivot on rates until the labor market breaks and it will keep financial conditions as tight as possible until that happens — this has been my theme since 2022. Employment continued to trend up in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing, while information lost jobs.

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Job growth remained strong in April, unemployment rate unchanged

Housing Wire

In addition, employment in the construction industry is now 21,000 jobs above its pre-pandemic level after the sector added 2,000 jobs. While the number of employees in construction is on the rise, annual growth in average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in construction slowed in April from 6.1%

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Are we seeing cracks in the labor market?

Housing Wire

We should get back all the jobs lost to COVID-19 by September of 2022. Employment continued growing in government, health care, social assistance, and construction, while transportation and warehousing lost jobs. Job openings should get to 10 million. (We We eventually got to 12 million ) We’re now down to 8.8

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