United States Nahb Housing Market Index 1985-2018 | Data | Chart

The NAHB Housing Market Index in the United States edged up to 70 in May of 2018 from a downwardly revised 68 in April, beating market expectations of 69. The index measuring current single-family home sales rose to 76 from 74 in April and the component gauging sales expectations in the next six months was steady at 77. Meanwhile, the prospective buyer index was also unchanged at 51. Nahb Housing Market Index in the United States averaged 49.93 from 1985 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 78 in December of 1998 and a record low of 8 in January of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-03-15	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	70	71	71	72
2018-04-16	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	69	70	71	69
2018-05-15	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	70	68	69	69
2018-06-18	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index		70		68
2018-07-17	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index				68
2018-08-15	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index				69

United States Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Building Permits	1364.00	1377.00	2419.00	513.00	Thousand	[+]
Housing Starts	1287.00	1336.00	2494.00	478.00	Thousand	[+]
New Home Sales	662.00	672.00	1389.00	270.00	Thousand	[+]
Pending Home Sales	-3.00	-4.40	30.90	-24.30	percent	[+]
Existing Home Sales	5460.00	5600.00	7250.00	1370.00	Thousand	[+]
Construction Spending	-1.70	1.00	5.90	-4.80	percent	[+]
Housing Index	0.10	0.80	1.20	-1.80	percent	[+]
Nahb Housing Market Index	70.00	68.00	78.00	8.00		[+]
Mortgage Rate	4.86	4.77	10.56	3.47	percent	[+]
Mortgage Applications	-2.60	-2.70	49.10	-38.80	percent	[+]
Case Shiller Home Price Index	206.67	205.16	206.67	100.00	Index Points	[+]
Home Ownership Rate	64.20	64.20	69.20	62.90	percent	[+]

United States Nahb Housing Market Index

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 2018.