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US House Prices, Pending Home Sales: April & May 17
The S&P/Case-Shiller and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Tuesday released their respective home price indices for April. National home prices increased at a more moderate annual growth rate, while local home price gains varied. US House Prices, Pending Home Sales: April & May 17 The Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index, reported by S&P…
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US New and Existing Home Sales, Inventory: May 2017
Contracts for new home sales expanded by 2.9 per cent in May to a 610,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to estimates from the joint data release of HUD and the US Census Bureau Friday. The report also noted a strong upward revision for the April rate of sales, increasing from a 569,000 annual pace…
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US Housing Starts: May 2017
Total housing starts in the US declined in May after a few, strong early months to begin 2017. Total starts were down 5.5 per cent, falling to a 1.092 million seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to the joint data release from the Census Bureau and HUD Friday. Declines were recorded for both single-family and multifamily…
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US Construction Spending, House Prices: April 2017
Construction spending in the US during April 2017 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of US$1,218.5 billion, 1.4 per cent below the revised March estimate of US$1,235.5 billion. Spending on private construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of US$943.3 billion, 0.7 per cent below the revised March estimate of US$949.7 billion.…
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US Lumber Imports, House Size, Home Sales
The US imported a total of 8.456 million cubic metres of softwood lumber from Canada in 1Q this year which, according to the figures from the US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), equates to a reduction of 16 per cent against last year. The FAS also recorded a reduction in US softwood lumber…
