United States Nahb Housing Market Index

The NAHB Housing Market Index in the United States fell to 64 in June 2019 from a seven-month high of 66 in the previous month, missing market expectations of 67. The sub-index for current single-family home edged down to 71 from 72 in May; the gauge for home sales over the next six months declined to 70 from 72; and the sub-index for prospective buyers dropped to 48 from 49. Nahb Housing Market Index in the United States averaged 50.37 from 1985 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 78 in December of 1998 and a record low of 8 in January of 2009.

Nahb Housing Market Index in the United States is expected to be 65.00 by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Nahb Housing Market Index in the United States to stand at 61.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Nahb Housing Market Index is projected to trend around 58.00 in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2019-03-18	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	62	62	63	66
2019-04-16	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	63	62	63	63
2019-05-15	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	66	63	64	63
2019-06-17	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	64	66	67	65
2019-07-16	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index		64		64
2019-08-15	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index				66
2019-09-17	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index				65

United States Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Building Permits	1294.00	1290.00	2419.00	513.00	Thousand	[+]
Housing Starts	1269.00	1281.00	2494.00	478.00	Thousand units	[+]
New Home Sales	626.00	679.00	1389.00	270.00	Thousand units	[+]
Pending Home Sales	-2.00	-1.10	30.90	-24.30	percent	[+]
Existing Home Sales	5340.00	5210.00	7250.00	1370.00	Thousand	[+]
Construction Spending	0.00	0.10	5.90	-4.80	percent	[+]
Housing Index	0.40	0.10	1.20	-1.70	percent	[+]
Nahb Housing Market Index	64.00	66.00	78.00	8.00		[+]
Mortgage Rate	4.06	4.14	10.56	3.47	percent	[+]
Mortgage Applications	1.30	-3.40	49.10	-38.80	percent	[+]
Case Shiller Home Price Index	215.68	214.09	215.68	100.00	Index Points	[+]
Home Ownership Rate	64.20	64.80	69.20	62.90	percent	[+]

NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) is based on a monthly survey of home builders. They are asked to rate current sales of single-family homes and sales expectations for the next six months and to rate traffic of prospective buyers. Scores for responses to each component are used to calculate a seasonally adjusted overall index, where a number over 50 indicates more builders view sales conditions as good than poor. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Nahb Housing Market Index - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Nahb Housing Market Index - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on June of 2019.