Housing starts drop 3.7% in November

Ground breakings for new U.S. homes decreased in November, while the number of issued building permits slid to its lowest levels in nearly 15 years.
DEC 18, 2007
By  Bloomberg
Ground breakings for new U.S. homes decreased in November, while the number of issued building permits slid to its lowest levels in nearly 15 years, according to a Department of Commerce report. Housing starts fell 3.7% to a seasonally adjusted 1.187 million annual rate in November, after increasing 4.2% in October to 1.232 million. Housing starts for November were 24.2% lower than the level of construction during the same month in 2006. The number of building permits issued fell 1.5% to an annual rate of 1.152 million in November, marking the lowest level since June 1993. Single-family housing starts fell 5.4% to 829,000, compared to the October figure of 876,000. Groundbreakings of apartment buildings—homes with five or more units—rose 4.4% to 332,000. Regionally, housing starts were off 16.3% in the Northeast, 1.5% in the Midwest and lost 6.9% in the West. On a positive note, housing starts increased 0.3% in the South.

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