housing starts

noun

: the number of new houses that people started to build
Housing starts declined in September.

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Weakening retail sales and drooping housing starts are also indicators of possible trouble ahead. Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 20 June 2025 Yields came under a bit of pressure earlier Wednesday after May housing starts data missed estimates, coming in at 1.256 million versus the 1.35 million that economists polled by Dow Jones were expecting. Sean Conlon,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 18 June 2025 In addition, single-family housing starts, retail sales volumes, and core capex shipments all showed lower readings sequentially in their latest releases. Robert Barone, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 The demand for lumber is tightly tied to new U.S. housing starts, Reimer's research has shown. Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for housing starts

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“Housing starts.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20starts. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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