Posted To: MND NewsWire
Residential construction resumed its upward trend after a brief pause in August. The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that all three measures of construction, permitting, housing starts, and unit completions, increased in September. Permits for privately owned residential construction were issued at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,553,000, up by 5.2 percent from the 1,476,000-unit annual rate (revised from 1,416,000) in August. The increase from the previous September’s rate of 1,437,000 units was 8.1 percent. Analysts had expected permits to recover from their slight (0.9 percent) downturn in August but those polled by Econoday had a consensus of only 1,451,000 units. Even the high end of their 1,375,000 to 1,500,000 forecast range was well…(read more)
Source: Mortgage News Daily
