How to Use housing starts in a Sentence

housing starts

noun
  • And housing starts have still not recovered from the bursting of the housing bubble in the mid-2000s.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 27 June 2024
  • With all the new housing starts underway, trustees expect more than 300 new homes will be built in the township in the next few years.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The rate of overall housing starts slowed in 2022 while completions climbed.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The lowest number of monthly housing starts since June 2020 raised fears that there won’t be enough supply to take the air out of home prices.
    WSJ, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But eventually, the lack of housing starts will catch up to these extra units.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 July 2024
  • Their forecast is that single-unit housing starts will climb by roughly 10% next year.
    Byalena Botros, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But there are small glimmers of hope going into 2024: For one, housing starts spiked in November to a six-month high.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Homebuilding activity has ramped up, but the pace of new housing starts is not enough to remedy the housing deficit.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • Wednesday: Consumer Price Index report and housing starts for June.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 9 July 2023
  • The Dallas Fed reported that construction cycle times have improved and that housing starts are expected to increase in the second half of the year.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
  • Another risk is that the number of homes under construction could fall as backlogs ease and applications for permits lag the pace of housing starts.
    Augusta Saraiva, Fortune, 24 June 2023
  • That was pretty clear this week when government data showed that housing starts and mortgage applications had dropped in May, largely due to high interest rates.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 13 July 2024
  • Additionally, the number of housing starts tumbled in March, according to a report released last week by the Census Bureau.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The number of housing starts, which measures the change in the number of new residential buildings that began construction, ticked up in July, showing that the market is still craving new construction.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Markets expect December retail sales, due Wednesday, to roughly keep November’s pace and housing starts, due Thursday, to fall.
    WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Data from the real estate market will also add to the economic picture when June housing starts are released Wednesday; the existing home sales report drops Thursday.
    Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2023
  • On Friday, investors will also be watching for the latest building permit and housing starts data, as well as fresh consumer sentiment insights.
    Brian Evans,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Homebuilders fell following the weaker-than-expected report on housing starts.
    Stan Choe, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • In September, housing starts were 5% higher than pre-pandemic levels.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In September, housing starts were 5% higher than pre-pandemic levels.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Figures out last week showed that national housing starts unexpectedly surged in May, jumping by the most since 2016, as applications to build homes also increased.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Counterintuitively, the worse-than-expected consumer spending and housing starts data after the CPI shock likely helped stocks.
    Bill Stone, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The economic data perked up (retail sales, industrial production, housing starts) after months of downside surprises and just as the consensus decided slowdown risks made rate cuts a lock.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • But recently, single-family housing starts have softened as high mortgage rates have discouraged construction.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
  • To create the ranking, CNBC looked at price appreciation, housing starts, foreclosure rates, and affordability.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 25 July 2023
  • Historically, housing starts have been an excellent predictor of changes in economic activity and business cycles.
    Orphe Divounguy | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Additionally, tonnage continues to contract from year earlier levels as retail sales remain soft, manufacturing production continues to fall from a year ago, and housing starts contract from 2022 levels.
    John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2023

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