Housing Starts Down Slightly in July

Housing Starts and Building Permits for July 2011
	DATE	CURRENT		LAST	% Change	Download Starts and Permits
Starts	8/16/2011	604Th		613Th	-1.5%
Permits	8/16/2011	597Th		617Th	-3.2%

Nationwide housing starts rose 14.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 629,000 units in June, according to figures released by the U.S. Commerce Department today. This was the best pace of housing production since the beginning of the year, and was attributable to significant gains registered in both the single-family and multifamily segments as well as every region of the country.

"Today's numbers are an encouraging sign that builders are responding to improving consumer interest in new homes and apartments by gradually replenishing their extremely thin inventories in places where demand is evident," said Bob Nielsen, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Reno, Nev. "That said, the lack of access to construction credit remains an impediment to starting new projects and getting building crews back to work in markets that are improving." Full story

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