If You Rely on Timely Housing Market Data, You Need U.S. Housing Market Conditions

This easy-to-use quarterly report draws on a wide range of public and industry sources to present the latest essential data on the U.S. housing market. For example, readers of the second quarter 1999 issue of U.S. Housing Market Conditions (released August 1999) will learn . . .

Housing permits were issued at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,595,000 units, 4 percent ahead of the second quarter of 1998.

The homeownership rate decreased slightly in the second quarter to 66.6 percent from 66.7 percent in the first quarter. Despite the decrease, this is the highest second-quarter rate ever reported.

Shipments of manufactured homes reached 385,000 in the first quarter, up 5 percent from the first quarter of 1998.

Construction was started on 1,604,000 housing units in the second quarter, down 9 percent from the first quarter, but up 2 percent from the second quarter of 1998.

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