United States Nahb Housing Market Index

The NAHB Housing Market Index in the United States increased to a seven-month high of 66 in May of 2019 from 63 in the previous month and above market expectations of 64. The sub-index for current single-family home sales rose to 72 from 69 in April; the gauge for home sales over the next six months edged up to 72 from 71 and prospective buyers went up to 49 from 47. Nahb Housing Market Index in the United States averaged 50.33 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 59.00 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 53.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Nahb Housing Market Index is projected to trend around 51.00 in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2019-02-19	03:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	62	58	59	54
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		66		59
2019-07-16	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index				57
2019-08-15	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index				56

United States Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Building Permits	1296.00	1288.00	2419.00	513.00	Thousand	[+]
Housing Starts	1235.00	1168.00	2494.00	478.00	Thousand units	[+]
New Home Sales	692.00	662.00	1389.00	270.00	Thousand units	[+]
Pending Home Sales	-1.20	-4.90	30.90	-24.30	percent	[+]
Existing Home Sales	5210.00	5480.00	7250.00	1370.00	Thousand	[+]
Construction Spending	-0.90	0.70	5.90	-4.80	percent	[+]
Housing Index	0.30	0.60	1.20	-1.70	percent	[+]
Nahb Housing Market Index	66.00	63.00	78.00	8.00		[+]
Mortgage Rate	4.40	4.41	10.56	3.47	percent	[+]
Mortgage Applications	-0.60	2.70	49.10	-38.80	percent	[+]
Case Shiller Home Price Index	212.70	212.27	213.83	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 May of 2019.