housing starts

noun

: the number of new houses that people started to build

Housing starts declined in September.

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Existing Home Sales continue to show weakness, new starts are on a downtrend, and building permits, a leading indicator for new housing starts, are all below pre-pandemic levels. —

Robert Barone, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024 That included better-than-expected retail sales , strong industrial production results, and more housing starts than expected. —

Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2024 The latest building permit, housing starts and existing home sales figures are also due later in the week. —

Hakyung Kim,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024 This is almost akin to how macro economists consider various signals such as GDP growth, unemployment, market interest rates, housing starts and like to forecast where the economy might be headed. —

Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for housing starts

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