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    Housing Recovery: Housing Starts at 4-Year High

    Starts rose 3.6 percent to a 894,000 annual rate, the fastest since July 2008 and exceeding all estimates in a Bloomberg survey, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. The median estimate of 82 economists called for starts to fall to a 840,000 pace. Building permits, a proxy for future construction, eased after surging the previous month.

    “Housing is absolutely going in the right direction,” said Harm Bandholz, chief U.S. economist at UniCredit Group in New York, who projected 870,000 starts at an annual rate. “Excess supply has been wound down and there’s a steady increase in demand. That’s good for construction.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-1...year-high.html

    Banks can't keep up with all the good news in housing, either:

    U.S. banks that have been earning record profits from home loans are adding or transferring thousands of staff to catch up with demand for refinancing after shortages blocked homeowners from getting lower rates.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-1...year-high.html
    Last edited by Jordan; 11-20-2012 at 08:20 AM.



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