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Housing Starts Post Biggest Drop Since August 2011 As Permits Rise
We just got another indication of how US housing has "bottomed"... if only in terms of promises and strong words. While permits, or promises that at some point in the indefinite future, a house will be built, soared from 723K to an annualized rate of 780K, the highest since September 2008, on expectations of a 730K print, actual holes dug, or Starts plunged from a revised 744K to 708K, the biggest miss of expectations of a modest improvement from the pre-revision number since April 2011, and the biggest sequential drop since August 2011. And while recently all the starts strength was in multi-family units as America prepares to become a renter society, in May it was actually the 1-unit houses that saw an increase from 500K to 516K units, as multi-family tumbled from 236K to 179K. So much for the REO-To-Rent plan? Finally, looking at actual completions, the number tumbled by 10.3% from an annual rate of 667K to 598K in May.
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Recovery Summer!
A big boom coming in the need to dig holes.
Come November I expect many holes will be dug and filled with the corpses of political careers.
I built a lean-to out of twigs. That counts!
Lower housing starts? That's just racist,you know.
Housin' ain't comin' back, yo!
Wait 'til you get a load of my new single, "Fat Bottomed Housing"
Big whoop! The same soon-to-be political corpses you talk of will still get paid and receive benefits for driving the rest of us into serfdom.
Don't distract me with hard numbers. The only thing I care about is sentiment!
And there we have the "weather phenomena". With all that good weather over the quarter . . . why weren't they digging holes? Too busy shopping? Once again, it just doesn't really add up.
Or maybe it's that pesky offered credit forward to fund the consumption. Working for autos and for a long time worked for mattresses . . . but I haven't seen anyone offering 0% down and 0% interest on lots lately. Same on new construction loans. There - fixed it. Let the next lending frenzy begin. sarc/
I agree, no hard data necessary. And beyond even sentiment, what's more important is wizardry and predicting the future based on gopher entrails
Heathens...bones in bowls, bow before the one true printer, lord, god Ben!
In Texas there is an enormous skilled labor shortage and we can't build without labor. I own a subcontracting biz. I could triple my work if I could find the labor.
What area of skilled labor is most needed? I'm a burned out lawyer trying to talk my wife into letting me chuck my law career and go to welding school in Houston. Shockingly, not having much luck with my argument. :-\
Welding is hell on the health but pays well after a couple years of training . Tex is having trouble finding skilled labor beceuse the pay is probably about the same as Mexico cost adjusted. I know alot of subs who never seem to get the pay retention effect.
thank the Bernank and $100 a barrel oil-remember Texas in the 80s-a bigger shithole than it is now
I have a contracting business in the mid east. Can i send you some illegals from here, they're skilled. Most illegals have retired on US social security and worker comp awards.
Bullish. Simply bullish.
now I know how to play this market, bad news buy equities,good news sell equities, what a scam!
My theory is you have to, Like Lehman, be bullish on the collapse of the American economy. The faster shit implodes the higher stocks like LULU and AAPL will rise on the fed printing treadmill. Come on Benny you can do it man, just push the button already.
Seeing as I base all my investment decisions on whether or not they will dig a hole in the ground at some point I have to say this is absolutely perplexing.
Kohl's dug a hole in the ground here this spring- saw where the economy was headed and just up and quit building-the equipment and mounds of dirt are just sitting there-BULLISH. not to mention 3 more small businesses in strip malls have closed in the last month
Smart planning by Kohl's. Getting ready for that consumer rush that's just itchin to happen, any moment now.
We should be digging holes everywhere.
To be honest, I'm giddier than Cramer right now, especially since Europe is fixed and all better.
I used to shop at Kohl's, until their clothing turned paper thin and the price doubled. 20% off? No thanks.
My friend tells me even his Ebay sales are way down....brand new stuff reduced 90% and still don't sell.....
"Bleak" is the New Normal.
I want to invest in holes. Any recommendations on funeral parlors.
No, but sugar-daddy dating sites, on the other hand . . .
Odd, all the ads I see are 'sexy septuagenarians'
There's a lucrative demographic with very little competition where I live. I should have my Funeral Directors license in about a year....wanna invest?!
The only thing getting built around here are the Del Webb shitboxes for the boomers. Basically 4 plastic wrapped walls/2000 sq ft for $350K and an $8000 property tax bill(so the local podunk cops can make 80K a year to enforce water sprinkler rules)
Sounds like you are around Vegas. Del Webb still building shit out there with the shitload of inventory still unsold?
SW Chi-town burbs- because IL is the first place the "smart" retirees think of
That's a better deal than the Boomers deserve, IMO.
+13.
My boss dug a hole two years ago to build a new shop. Still a hole.
construction sector has been losing jobs for 5 months straight..
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USCONS
bitchez
I almost jumped on the multi-family bandwagon. I found a great short sale that would make good money if fully rented, but then I noticed all the "For Rent" signs in the neighborhood. I don't know where people are living.
Hint! ... Have you noticed that gasoline demand is way down because vehicles (homes) are not being driven ... and ... large appliance boxes are not being recycled ... and ... parents have been cleaning out basements?
in holes
Yup! I have to wonder how many homeless families will be found the next time Obozo gets his Presidential Colonoscopy? Might also finally find Jimmy Hoffa.
If they aren't at there parents they are living ten to a trailer illegal Mexcan style.
God bless Amerika.
Why pay rent that is equal to a mortgage payment? Mom and dad have plenty of room in the McMansion. Use the mother-in-law apartment they never should have built. There's no stigma in living with M&P anymore, since everyone is doing it. M&P need help paying the absurd property taxes.
So...does this mean that Mr & Mrs Obozo will have to rent a place next January?
Well, they do already have that place in Chicago, made nicer by the land deal they made with their friend Mr. Rezko. I wonder if Michelle can put up with Chicago weather after having visited all those nice places around the world.
Why is it that every time I post about Obozo he gives me a negative? I guess moving from Chicago to WaShitOn destroyed his sense of humor. Well, not completely since he appointed Hillary as Secretary of State.
Seriously, Real Estate from what I gather is going bangbusters AGAIN. In Phoenix, you can get your very own patch of dry hot sand for between 100k-300k. That level is moving so fast with multiple bids. Anything above that tends to stay on the market I am told by agents.
I see it here in Chicago too...people thinking it's going back to unsustainable levels.....
HIGHBALL....I think that is the term....Let's say I want to sell you a turd for 10 bucks...you say....that is shit! I know....so I will give it to you for.....wiat for it.....6 bucks!!! 40% off!!!! THAT IS A SORE DICK....YOU CANT BEAT IT!
But, you know all along it's not worht ANYTHING....BUT the psychological numbers make you believe it's a deal!
This is a bump up on the never ending decline....hope floats....
real estate sucks ballls
in Chicago? wait til the property taxes statrt jumping 20% a year to plug the Cook County pension gap
Dear Otto......oh...do NOT get me started.
Real Estate taxes are one thing that are outrageous and not even mentioning tolls or parking. Illinois is the worst of the 50. No doubt about it. On all levels.
Thank God Scott Walker won up north....I mean, cmon....we the tax suckers are paying for their "pension"...going to fat, surly and lazy pieces of shit???
Pensions are great, if you got em. And they are great IF YOU FUND YOUR OWN PENSION akin to 401k. But to have these Cook Cunty employees make 100k pension for DOING JACK SHIT.
So, let me get this straight....we the tax suckers(total fucking losers of Illionis) FUND the pensions that go to these "(un)civil servants"...and if they die it goes to their spouse. We fund it 100%.
So far so good...now...we get these overpaid PM who blow the fund to pieces with a bazooka given to them by Satan himself, Ben Berkanke. So, with negative rates (not even real rates!!!) you cant blame them too much as interest is a thing of the past.
So, the PM gets paid. The pensions get paid. We pick up the pieces. SOCIALISM AT ITS BEST!
I love what Thatcher said....THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISM IS THAT YOU START TO RUN OUT OF OTHER POEPLE'S MONEY....
I hate playing the fool.....but atelast I have company!
Not a problem. Come Jan. 21 they'll have themselves an experienced community orgasmizer to fix that pension thingamajig.
Do you work for the 24 hour shopping channel? I really want a set of 100 knives that can never be sharpened and have no use for anything. How much?
how to feed a bubble with a leak...
holes represent reality, permits represent talk and talk is cheap. Watch what they do, not what they say and what they're doing is slowing down.
Stock Futures rally on the news.
Holesale numbers are up?
It's all a confidence game at this point. Governing authorities and fraud artists trying desperately to keep the masses ignorant and uniformed, at the very least confused. This is why all the contradiction and obfuscation. Keep the dumb public unfocused so they cannot aim their anger anywhere while that small core with an over deluded sense of entitlement plunder the publics' trust and the publics' hard earned wages. This will end as it always has. Whatever happened to free enterprise, old fashion honest capitalism reinvesting savings and earning wealth through productivity and entrepreneurial spirit. All the power to people who can do this. We need more of them instead of parasitic rent seekers.
Regulations, Red Tape, Barriers to Entry.
No one wants an overpriced wooden box anymore.
Sorry.
Well, here we are 3 YEARS after Cramer called 'the bottom in housing',,,,June 30, 2009. I guess that NOW, he can go on his CNBS clown show, and really, really, REALLY mean it this time ! Strong government data to support the rant too. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
buy foreclosed homes and become a slumlord millionaire.... fuck yeahyuhhh
24 months ago my neighbors put their house up for sale - 3400 sq ft and 5 acres with horse barn for 500k. 18 months later it came off the market, having only received one bid of 385k which they declined. They spent the winter adding custom kitchen and bathroom (2.5) cabinets and granite countertops, as well as a ton of landscaping, to the tune of about 50k. House went back onthe market last month for...drumroll...425k. lol, should taken the 385k, right ? but he's a bankster so of course their place was special and worth more lolol. 3 weeks and counting and they haven't had even one showing - they're panicking and don't understand why the market is so bad...and now they have a loan for the 50k of upgrades that they have to pay.
Only a bankster could be such a dope in this market.
If they can't get their dough back with the kitchen upgrades, there's alway Jew Lightning!
Wha do you think would happen if all the great publicly traded home builders said there was enough supply and they quit building?
They need to keep filing permits and buying land or their stock goes to zero. A failed development by me has started breaking ground again after five years. What were supposed to be $450k+ homes are now listed to be $250k+. Th catch is you must put 20% down as a deposit before the builder will start the home.
Good luck. Full retard still doesn't cover it. PERMITS ARE UP, LET'S BUY HOMBUILDER STOCK AND DRIVE THE PAPER UP 20%, WHOO!
short DHI.
Madness. Someday this war's going to end.
Up until now the homebuilders have been exaggerating starts in a plan to get the muppets to invest in XHB. That plan failed so now its time to flip the numbers and go to Uncle Ben with hat in hand. Muppets are getting smarter but smarts can't replace a direct line to the cash cow.
I will be anxiously awaiting reports of the housing recovery evidenced by housing permits. derp.
And here comes another "article" from the sage Lee Adler telling us the bottom is in and it's all happy happy joy joy from here on out......in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...........
Ummmm.......Lee?
Ok Ilene, what have you done with Lee?
There is always a subordinate number that follows the "bad news" announcement that points to "things getting better"........ but it never does. Bullishit!!
I'm even more sentimental about more house fires.
Why is gold falling? Especially in euro.
Because the world is filled with nothing but courrption!
who would buy a new house when the used houses are so cheap! condos in my area have been slashed by over half and no one is buying.. i was at the LOWES store the past few days looking at replacing my old refrig, they were so busy i had to make appointments for both the appliance guy and the replacement window man! people buying and taking out credit like there was no tomorrow! no one at LOWES knew it was the end game except me!!
Housing down and the stock market up 100 points! hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa clown show
Detached homes rose, but multifamily fell over 20%. Add in the job openings crashing and this is hell.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/the-struggling-housing-recovery-single-family-housing-starts-rose-3-2-in-may-multifamily-starts-fell-21-31-building-permits-up-7-9-completions-down/
Since I am debating Jared Bernstein on Thursday at the National Press Club, I included a video of VP Joe Biden discussing our housing market, It is unreal!
Well, I hear housing starts in tent cities for homeless families are spiking. They are breaking ground on new tents/shanties/cardboard boxes each day...
A Government Warning! http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/a-government-warning/
Somehow Obama has to get the new vot, er, citizens, into new homes so they can live the American nightm, er, dream.
Immense tracts of empty houses and signs indicating new homes to be built soon on even more huge tracts of former farm land. Yet, no buyers. A completely dead housing market from all appearances, yet it's good news for the housing market, of course. LOL This is akin to all the other government and corporate cooked reports.