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This past year saw unprecedented government intervention, the end of Kimball Hill Homes, falling starts, and growing financial difficulties for the nation's home builders.
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Dec. 16--Though new home construction in the Rochester area has dropped 60 percent from its historic peak in 2004, despair not, a national economist said Monday: Rochester is doing better than most cities and could be poised for a rebound when the national economy stabilizes.
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Newport: ‘This may be the worst housing report ever.’
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Level of new residential construction at or below lowest ever recorded.
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Nov. 4--Home building ground to a near-halt in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast in the third quarter, a period when housing starts fell to their lowest level in at least a decade -- and perhaps much longer.
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By 2011, starts could fall to around 125,000 units—numbers not seen since 1993.
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The dip in new-home starts, according to government estimates, is the lowest for any month in 17 years.
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Single-family building permits drop 5.2% compared to previous month.
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A change in New York City construction codes leads to total starts and permits increases, but single-family numbers are still decreasing.
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Overall May housing construction numbers also trend downward.
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Gloomy news from Fitch Housing Conference
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Multifamily provides boost to April construction activity.
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Pace of starts and permits falls below one-million mark in March.
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Overall housing activity down by nearly one-third compared to last year.
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Decreasing single-family starts and permits indicate that the housing market will continue to be sluggish as builders work off inventory.
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Housing starts for single-family homes took a bigger than expected dive in December -- 14.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted 1.006 million annual rate, to be exact, the Commerce Department said Thursday morning. The latest surge downward is the lowest point for groundbreaking in 16 years. The...
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Housing starts dropped in November, and permits for future construction slid to a 14-year low, according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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Housing permits reached a new 14-year low in October as housing starts, enhanced by a surge in multi-family unit construction, made a modest jump according to a joint report from the Commerce Department and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday morning. Total permits...
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Construction continues to stall as housing starts dropped 10.2 percent in September, while building permit activity plummeted 7.3 percent, according to a joint report from the Commerce Department and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Wednesday. The monthly report revealed that...
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Housing starts in August fell 2.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.331 million, the lowest mark since June 1995 according to data released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau. The report also reveals that building permits...