PKB News and Press, Invesco Dynamic Building & Construction From 12/05/23

2023-12-05 00:10:00 ET Summary October’s numbers did not look good, but November picked up momentum and December may be better, so fourth-quarter GDP may come in better than first feared. Two big international energy-related meetings opened last Thursday – a delayed ...

2023-12-04 06:00:00 ET Summary The supply-demand imbalance is likely to continue supporting further home price appreciation and rental inflation. Homeowners are enjoying both strong price gains and home loans financed at negative real rates. The U.S. housing supply-demand imba...

2023-11-29 07:45:00 ET Summary Political Calculations' initial estimate of the nominal market capitalization of new homes sold during October 2023 is $29.25 billion. The data for October 2023 is also the first to break what had been a series of consistently rising monthly values f...

2023-11-28 18:50:00 ET Summary The latest S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller home price data for September was released today and showed a 0.3% month-over-month (m/m) increase in home prices at the national level. Fifteen of twenty cities saw prices rise m/m, with Detroit, New York, a...

2023-11-28 02:35:00 ET Summary Homes in 29 states are unaffordable to the median household, marking the first time a majority of states have below-average affordability. In these 29 states - led by Hawaii, California, and the District of Columbia - the median household cannot affo...

2023-11-27 22:10:00 ET Summary The median price of new single-family houses sold in October fell by 3.1% from September, to $409,300, the lowest since August 2021, down by 17.6% from a year ago. Sales of new houses – not seasonally adjusted, and not the annual rate of sales...

2023-11-27 03:50:00 ET Summary The Chicago Fed Activities Index shows an expected drop in October versus strong September. We are near concerning levels, which would be below -.5. Existing home sales are down again and inventory is up. Many home owners are locked into their home b...

2023-11-21 21:30:00 ET Summary The national median price of existing homes of all types – single-family houses, condos, and co-ops – whose sales closed in October dropped to $391,800, down by 5.1% from the peak in June 2022. The median price in June 2023, the seasona...

2023-11-21 03:01:00 ET Summary Industrial production continues to show negative growth. This month is much about the auto industry. Furniture and Machinery have been weak for close to a year. By Douglas R. Terry, CFA Industrial production continues to show ne...

2023-11-18 00:30:00 ET Summary The NAHB's Housing Market Index dropped to 34 in November and is only three points above the low from last December. The month-over-month declines across the report were historically large with the six-point drop in the headline index ranking in the ...