Needless to say, the lack of housing transactions is not good for new housing construction.
When housing prices collapsed, millions employed in housing construction and related industries lost their jobs.
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Home sales, new housing construction, and home prices have recovered to levels not seen in several years.
Personal consumption grew a puny 1.3% in Q2, and housing construction, as you might have guessed, sank 7.5%.
Housing construction fell in November and single-family activity dropped to the lowest level in more than 16 years.
Limitations on housing construction are weak job growth, tight credit standards for home buyers, and developer financing challenges.
The current flap over housing construction's run rate of 500, 000 plus is misplaced.
Winches hoist in aggregates, allowing a spate of road repairs and housing construction.
Stone, clay and glass companies will benefit from both cheap natural gas as well as a housing construction rebound.
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The fact that there was no housing construction means that we don't have enough houses, so housing is doing well.
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The slump in housing construction, the decline of newspapers and a trend toward less packaging and waste all have contributed.
The American auto industry is back on top. (Applause.) Home values and housing construction is on the rise.
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That prediction was based on the assumption that collapsing vacancies and rising rents would fuel a boom in multi-family housing construction.
Housing construction was crackling before 2004 because of Congress' virtual elimination of the capital gains tax on primary residences in 1997.
Founded by the father of group chairman Kim Suk Won, Ssangyong was a household name in Korean cement and housing construction.
Property sales are rising and housing construction began to gain momentum from a low base by the second half of the year.
Some of this rural-income growth has been generated by the spate of housing construction (Bianba Tsering's brickmaking business has been an obvious beneficiary).
Housing construction fell 5.8 percent in the Northeast but gained in the rest of the country, led by a 10.9 percent rise in the South.
The jump in sales of newly-built homes is of particular note, as housing construction has typically played a lead role in past US economic recoveries.
Though housing construction has been waning, Hanson made our Global 2000 list of top-performing companies because it was raking in revenues from commercial and public works projects.
Most recently, President Obama seized upon an ill-timed bureaucratic announcement regarding planned housing construction within Jerusalem's city limits as a pretext for having his administration serially denounce Israel.
With housing construction and housing inventory near historical lows, D.
Underlying this economic recovery is an improvement in the state of private sector balance sheets, which contrasts with the traditional view that housing construction will lead the way out.
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With oil prices trending high, hiring for energy jobs is robust, while the ongoing slump in new housing construction has depressed demand for lumber and thus for lumberjacks, says Mr. Lee.
That means we still need to account for 300, 000 houses per year for us to be at the same place we were ten years ago (which is about when housing construction really took off).
If the economy has been better than expected (for instance, you sell into housing construction), will it revert to your prior expectations, or should you dial up your plan for the remainder of the year?
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The massive crash in housing construction is in the past: Recent housing starts have picked up which means more trash to haul away and even if that isn't sustained, the sector is unlikely to get much worse.
The U.S. withdrawal from Asia lead to a decline in military spending at sprawling bases like Hickam Air Force Base and Pearl Harbor Naval Base (some respite came in military housing construction throughout the last decade).
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Ms. Quinn's plan to build 40, 000 new middle-income apartments would be the largest such housing construction program since the Mitchell-Lama program was created in 1955 to provide affordable rental and cooperative housing to moderate- and middle-income families.
But as weak as housing construction has been since the last quarter of 2008 (see below), over the past ten years we have started about 1.23 million houses a year while adding only about 920, 000 households per year.
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