by Calculated Risk on 8/24/2006 07:19:00 PM
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Housing: Difference a Year Makes
From MarketWatch: The difference a year makes
The difference a year makes Recent data quantify housing cooldown (year-over-year changes). | |
Builders’ sentiment | |
New-home sales | |
Purchase-mortgage applications | |
Building permits | |
Housing starts | |
Existing-home sales | |
Existing-home inventories | |
New-home inventories |
For builder sentiment, they are using the August numbers. For July, builder sentiment was off 44%. So the situation has probably gotten worse. Also, existing home sales lags most of the other indicators.