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Home construction boosts full-size pickup truck resale...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 16, 2013
The resale value of three-year-old full-size pickup trucks has increased 7 percent in the past year, according to a ...
Housing starts tumble 16.5% in April, but surge in...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 16, 2013
The start of construction on homes fell drastically in April, one month after reaching a level of home starts the ...
Construction economists: spending on slow upward march,...
Posted by Marcia Gruver Doyle on May 10, 2013
There are several pluses and minuses in today’s construction spending front, although the overall picture is trending upwards, agreed three ...
U.S. rental construction, lack of first-time home...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 08, 2013
Despite recent dips in construction spending and employment, the mood in the industry is, well, better. Better than it was ...
Housing starts jump 7% in March to highest level since...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on Apr 16, 2013
Apartment construction in March fueled a jump to the highest rate of housing starts since June 2008. The housing recovery ...
Construction materials prices flat in March as diesel...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on Apr 15, 2013
According to the latest Producer Price Index from Associated General Contractors of America, the prices for construction materials were flat ...
Construction spending up 7.9 percent annually, home...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on Apr 01, 2013
Thanks to a surge in home building, construction spending grew 1.2 percent in February, according to seasonally-adjusted data from the ...
Permits, labor shortage cause delays as builders...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 25, 2013
“I’ve also never seen a market turn so quickly.” That's what Kurt K. Colgan, a broker with Lyon Real Estate of ...
Following four-year high, U.S. housing starts drop 8.5%...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 20, 2013
After surging to a four-year high in December, much of the momentum in housing starts was lost in January though ...
U.S. home construction surges in December to highest...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 18, 2013
In December, builders began work on new homes at the fastest rate since the Summer of 2008, according to numbers ...
Housing starts dip in November, remain far ahead of...
Posted by Wayne Grayson on Dec 19, 2012
Privately-owned housing starts in the month of November were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 861,000, according to figures released ...
U.S. home starts rise to highest rate in 4 years
Posted by Wayne Grayson on Nov 20, 2012
The housing recovery gained more momentum in October as construction began on the most homes and apartments since July 2008. According ...





