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Last quarter, I posted an update on homeownership rates at Mercatus . Recently updates for the fourth quarter came out from the Census Bureau. This is noisy data, so it's tough to get much out of quarter-to-quarter changes. You sort of need to wait for trends to be established. For what it'...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.45% for the week ending Feb. 6, 2020, down 6 basis points from 3.51% in the previous week, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: D.R. Horton, Inc., PulteGroup, Inc., KB Home, Financial stocks news, News on the U...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.51% for the week ending Jan. 30, 2020, down from 3.60% in the prior week, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, SPDR Homebuilders ETF, ETF Series Solutions - Hoya Capital Hous...

The S&P 1500 Homebuilding Index falls as much as 2.6%  after December pending home sales notched their worst performance since 2010. More news on: NVR, Inc., M/I Homes, Inc., Meritage Homes Corporation, News on the U.S. economy, Financial stocks news, News on ETFs, Read mor...

Existing home sales gained strength in the fourth quarter of 2019, with the estimated market capitalization of the existing home market in 49 states for which we have data appearing to have finally surpassed its previous March 2018 peak in November 2019. State-level data for existing homes s...

The Environmental Protection Agency today released new federal clean water regulations that will remove many seasonal streams, small waterways and wetlands from federal oversight. More news on: Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF, SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF, Va...

The number of U.S. homes for sale fell to 1.49M in December, down 7.5% Y/Y and down 0.7% M/M to the lowest level recorded by Zillow. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, SPDR Homebuilders ETF, ETF Series Solutions - Hoya Capital Housing ETF, Financial stocks news, News on th...

Before 2017, the all-time high in the lumber futures market was $493.50 per 1,000 board feet in 1993. In late 2015, when many raw materials prices fell to multiyear lows, lumber hit bottom at $214.40. The price of wood futures then embarked on a recovery that took the price to a new record pea...

Housing BOOM! 2 Housing is a very important long leading indicator, and it reflects both the consumer and producer sides of the economy. And this Jan. 19 morning, at least in terms of starts, it hit a grand slam. Total housing starts were 1.608 million units annualized, the highest numbe...

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman remains optimistic and expects "construction to continue advancing to meet the underlying expansion in housing demand." More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, SPDR Homebuilders ETF, ETF Series Solutions - Hoya Capital Housing ETF, Finan...