Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Multifamily leads housing recovery

A large chunk of the credit for our improving economy belongs to multifamily construction. Since hitting a trough of 111,000 multifamily permits in October 2009, multifamily activity has quickly recovered. This past October there were 418,000 multifamily permits pulled, an amazing 73% of the permits pulled in March 2006, the single best month since the late 1980s. If single-family were doing that well, we'd be at 1.3 million SF permits.

Elliot F. Eisenberg, Ph.D.
GraphsandLaughs, LLC
www.econ70.com  

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