Growth in Residential Home Building Nationwide

Mortgage News Daily:

Residential Building Continues to Dominate Construction Spending

https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/news/05032022-construction-spending

“Na Zhao, analyst for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said the monthly growth in residential spending came from new single-family construction at $472.6 billion a 1.3 percent increase from February and 18.5 percent year over year while multifamily spending slipped 0.5 percent. Spending on home improvements also rose 1.1 percent for the month.

Zhao says NAHB’s construction spending index illustrates the solid growth in single-family construction and home improvement from the second half of 2019 to February 2020, when the pandemic hit, and the quick rebound since July 2020. New multifamily construction spending has picked up the pace after a slowdown in the second half of 2019. However, he says home building is still facing supply chain issues, which means the industry is dealing with rising material costs as well as ongoing labor shortages.

Residential spending jumped by nearly $11 billion on a non-adjusted basis in March and year-to-date spending is up 18.8 percent from last year. The gains were again disproportionally in single-family building, up 19.8 percent during the first three months of 2022 while there has been only 5.0 percent growth in multifamily construction spending.“