February 20, 2007
Housing Permits and Starts Slide But Builder Confidence Rising
Right on the heels of the National Association of Realtors rather glum
report on the p" class="external">sale of existing houses during the fourth quarter of 2006 the U.S.
Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
released their monthly joint report on housing starts
and housing permits for the month of January. The news
was not quite terrible, but it didn't do much to raise optimism in the
housing industry…
