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November 21, 2024

Homebuilders have an optimistic outlook on the single-family home market in 2025. But what about talk of home shortages and the recession? Find out all the details later in this email. 

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🏠️ Builders Feel Optimistic About the Single-Family Home Market in 2025

Builders this week expressed renewed optimism in the construction and sales of new single-family homes.

That’s good news for the coming months. Especially for prospective buyers greeted with this headline from Reuters on Tuesday: “US single-family housing starts slump; high mortgage rates remain a challenge.”

New construction on single-family homes in October fell 6.9% with the new data this week, including 10.2% in the South.

“The recession in residential housing construction remains deep in the woods with no daylight seen for buyers facing supply shortages as they hunt for new single-family homes,” an economist told Reuters.

“The housing shortage and affordability issues will remain unless there is a big jump in new construction.”

However, builder confidence data seems like more of a leading indicator. And the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) also released data this week.

“Builders are expressing increased confidence … in significant regulatory relief for the industry that will lead to the construction of more homes and apartments,” NAHB chairman Carl Harris said.

“This is reflected in a huge jump in builder sales expectations over the next six months.”

An index score above 50 indicates “good” conditions. Here are the three index scores:

Current sales conditions: 49 (up two points)
Sales expectations for the next six months: 64 (+7)
Traffic from prospective buyers: 32 (+3)

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