The Housing Chronicles Blog: Builder confidence rebounds four points in August to 68

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Builder confidence rebounds four points in August to 68

Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes rose four points in August to 68 on the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).

All three HMI components posted gains in August. The component gauging current sales conditions rose four points to 74 while the index charting sales expectations in the next six months jumped five points to 78. Meanwhile, the component measuring buyer traffic increased a single point to 49.


Looking at the three-month moving averages for regional HMI scores, the Northeast rose one point to 48. The West, South and Midwest all remained unchanged at 75, 67 and 66, respectively.

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