The Housing Chronicles Blog: BuilderBytes' MetroIntelligence Economic Update for 8/20/15

Thursday, August 20, 2015

BuilderBytes' MetroIntelligence Economic Update for 8/20/15

Please click here to see the edition of BuilderBytes for 8/20/15 on the Web.

In this issue of the MetroIntelligence Economic Update, I covered the following indicators:
  • July building permits fell 16.3 percent from June but still up 7.5 percent year-over-year
  • July housing starts reached nearly eight-year high, up 10.1 percent year-over-year
  • CPI rose 0.1 percent in July, up by just 0.2 percent over previous 12 months
  • Federal Reserve meeting minutes shows conditions for rate hike improving
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