Housing Market Index

Housing Market Index

• Behind the headlines on home builder sentiment

   

• Builder Confidence Up Again in January

  While the Housing Market Index remains low by historical standards, the monthly improvement brought it to the highest level seen in more than four years.

   

• Builders climb a wall of fear

   

• Builders' moods edge upward in advance of a new Spring

   

• Builder Confidence Jumps in November

  The Housing Market Index reported its best reading since April 2008.

   

• Builder mood: where a swing from poor to fair is a win

   

• Builder Confidence Edges Down

  Builders grew slightly more glum in September despite record low mortgage rates and evidence from several big public builders that sales and prices appear to have stabilized. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for September dropped one point from August...

   

• America's most and least-affordable new- and existing-home markets

   

• As the 55+ market stirs for builders, the model is for-rent, not for-sale

   

• Builder Confidence Unchanged in August

  Builder confidence in the new-home market remained stuck at 15 on a scale of 100 in August, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Analysts were expecting a flat reading. Two of three component indices, meanwhile, posted marginal gains.

   

• Home builder sentiment: 'the same as it ever was,' which is good news

   

• Builder Confidence Rebounds

  The NAHB's builder confidence index bounces slightly off the bottom.

   

• Builder Confidence Edges Up

  Builder confidence in the market for new single-family home sales rose by 2 points in July, the National Association of Home Builders said Monday, butthe confidence reading of 15 remained sharply below a level that wouldindicate optimism.

   

• Bounce... bounce ... bounce ... along the bottom

   

• Builder Confidence Takes Another Leg Down

  Builders are no more confident now in the market for new single-family homes than they were in the post tax-credit doldrums of September, 2010, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. The index, released Wednesday, slipped three points from May to a...

   

• Foreclosures Continue to Take Toll on Pricing

  Bills have been introduced in the Senate advocating to remove some of banks’ financial incentives to foreclose rather than modify.

   

• Low Expectations Keep Builder Confidence in the Dumps

  Even as measures of sales and traffic moved up, disappointment from a poor showing in sales this spring left builders unhopeful.

   

• Muddling along: the NAHB Housing Market Index stays flat at a bottom-fishing level of not-so-sweet 16

   

• Amid debate on housing finance, affordability is a question

   
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  Markets Need Jobs

  Jobs must be created before housing industry recovers.