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US Housing Starts, Home Sales, Inventories
US housing starts fell for a third straight month in February, but a rebound in building permits offered some hope for the housing market as it struggles to emerge from a soft patch. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday groundbreaking slipped 0.2 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 907,000 units. That followed…
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Madison’s Lumber News Archives: Feb 2011
USDA Forest Service New Planning Rule ; Canada’s Response to US Request for Arbitration ; US Housing Starts ; China Plywood Imports and Exports ; Printing and Writing Paper Shipments ; Boise Announces . . . Global Home Building ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Proposed Heat Treatment of US Softwood Imports ; Housing Starts, Canada…
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Housing Starts, Sales : US
Groundbreaking on new US homes dropped 16 per cent in January compared to December, and dipped 2 per cent lower than their level one year earlier, data released by the US government Friday shows. The decrease had been widely expected, thanks to January’s cold and stormy weather. New home starts in January were at an…
