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U.S. mortgage rates move down ahead of the spring homebuying season, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage falling to a 10-month low. More news on: SPDR Homebuilders ETF, iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, Invesco Dynamic Building & Construction Portfolio ETF, Financial stocks news, Ne...

Following our first-ever analysis of the total transaction value for existing home sales in the U.S., we're returning to more familiar territory in calculating the equivalent market capitalization for new homes sold in the U.S., where we find that it too appears to have peaked in March 2018....

Since peaking in February 2018, the relative affordability of new homes being sold in the United States has continued to improve through November 2018, the last month for which the data is available, where rising mortgage rates, falling new home sale prices, and rising incomes have combined to...

By Bruce Blythe At a Glance Construction data, Fed rates and commodity markets combine to tell the story of housing. What does that tell us about overall economic health? Economies and houses are both established on solid foundations, and the relationship between the t...

Is this the Beginning of a Globalized Housing Downturn? Housing has become a global financialized asset class. The possibilities seemed unlimited. And this flow of money, along with local factors, has created enormous distortions in some markets. But the priciest markets are now starting t...

I pulled up these charts today while responding to an e-mail, and they seem worth sharing. This is Austin, Seattle, and San Francisco. They each are cities with high demand for population growth and strong income growth. They really make a nice example of how housing supply works. When there...

By Paul W. Varunok, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group The US housing market is starting to cool off a bit, but the big question is whether there are cracks in its foundation. Paul Varunok, head of Securitized Assets with Franklin Templeton Fix...

Homebuilders' stocks gain strongly after new home sales reached a nine-month high in November, and October's number was revised upward. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, D. R. Horton Inc., KB Home, Stocks on the move, Financial stocks news, News on ETFs, Read more ......

Yesterday's scheduled release of US gross domestic product ((GDP)) for the fourth quarter is still a mystery, courtesy of lingering effects of the partial government shutdown that ended last week. The good news is that whenever the Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes the data (the date remai...

Introduction While we are waiting for Friday’s employment report, and with the continuing drought in significant economic numbers due to the government shutdown, I thought I’d look at a few things to watch. A look at housing construction vs. construction employment By now i...