US Housing Starts, Building Permits Stall as There is a Rise in Mortgage Rates

    Bloomberg News reports that US new-home construction dropped in April amidst the prevailing challenges related to the supply chain and the steepest rise in mortgage rates. 

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    Residential starts declined by 0.2% in the last month to a 1.72 million annualized rate following a revised downward 1.73 million pace in the previous month, as per data from the government that was released on Wednesday. In a Bloomberg survey, the media estimate called for 1.76 million paces. Applications to build, a proxy related to future construction, dropped by 3.2% to an annualized 1.82 million units. 

    Builders are being satisfied with higher material prices amidst inflation at an all-time high, aside from continued difficulty in securing lots and labor. This, combined with the concerns that a steep rise in the cost of borrowing will squeeze the prospective buyers out of the market, pushed the homebuilder sentiment measure this month to the lowest level since 2020 June. 

    The average for a 30-year loan surged to 5.3% in the last week, up from 2.94% one year earlier and the highest since 2009, as per data manifested by Freddie Mac. Still, the signs indicate that pressures may be softening somewhat on the demand and supply side of the market amidst the rising rates and easing pandemics, allowing firms to work through the piled-up backlogs. 

    Single-family starts dropped by 7.3% in April to an annualized pace of 1.1 million units as multifamily starts, which tend to be volatile and include condominiums and apartment buildings, rose by 15.3%

    Bloomberg news report showed the number of single-family homes that were authorized for the construction but not yet started, which is a measure of the backlogs, rose slightly in the next 15 years to the highest. Overall backlogs surged to the highest since 1974. 

    The number of properties of a single-family under construction continued to escalate as builders progressed, reaching 815,000, which was the most since 2006. The total number of units that have remained under construction advanced to a record level. 



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