Housing Starts

Warren Buffett‘s real estate business underscored the need for homeowners to reduce prices as the Home Builder Confidence index fell to a 30-month low in June 2025. What Happened: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.‘s (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) Home Services blog highlighted that if the sellers had few...

New construction on single-family homes in the U.S. jumped in August as mortgage rates trend downward and the Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates on Wednesday for the first time in four years. Single-family housing starts last month came in at an annualized rate of 992,000 units, up 15.8% from...

The number of homebuilding projects started in January plunged, hitting the lowest rate since August, with the Midwest region lagging the most. Data from the U.S. census bureau on Friday showed housing starts fell by 14.8% in January, rocked by a chunky 35.8% fall in projects started on multifamily...

Construction could be a major tailwind to economic growth in 2024 if homebuilding keeps pace with the rate at which it grew in November and demand for new homes remains robust. Housing starts surged by 14.8% to 1,560,000 in November, well above consensus expectations of 1,360,000, with an 18% surge...

Nobel laureate and noted economist Paul Krugman raised an interesting question regarding Housing Starts vis-a-vis employment in the sector on his Twitter page. Krugman cited a chart by the St. Louis Federal Reserve and wondered why Housing starts have been on a decline while employment in the...

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U.S. stocks ended Wednesday's trading session little changed after Fed officials expressed an ongoing concern that inflation may remain at low levels for some time despite efforts to boost the economy, according to October's FOMC minutes. “The information reviewed for the October...

U.S. stocks rallied on Friday following positive earnings reports from several large-cap multinationals this morning on a relatively light day of market moving news. The Dow traded higher by more than 300 points before giving back some of the gains. The S&P 500 rallied but still posted its...

Investors continue to question where the bottom of this most recent dip in stocks will materialize. The markets closed on Friday near the same levels that led to a bounce in early August, however, many fear that a deeper correction may be in the works. The week ahead features the release of...