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U.S. housing starts climb more than expected in August
The Commerce
Department reported on Wednesday the building permits issued for privately
owned housing units climbed by 7.7 percent m-o-m in August to a seasonally
adjusted annual pace of 1.419 million (the highest level since May 2007), while
housing starts surged by 12.3 percent m-o-m to an annual rate 1.364 million (the
highest level since June 2007).
Economists had
forecast housing starts advancing to a pace of 1.250 million units last month and
building permits falling to a pace of 1.300 million units.
Data for July
was revised to show homebuilding dropping to a pace of 1.215 million units,
instead of decreasing at a rate of 1.191 million units as previously reported.
According to
the report, permits for single-family homes, the largest segment of the market,
rose 4.5 percent m-o-m at 866,000 in August, while approvals for the
multi-family homes segment surged 13.3 percent m-o-m to a 553,000 unit-rate.
In the
meantime, groundbreaking on single-family homes rose 4.4 percent m-o-m to a rate
of 919,000 units in August (the highest level since January), while housing
starts for the multi-family jumped 32.8 percent m-o-m to a 445,000-unit pace.
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