Home builder index lowest since 1991: NAHB
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Sentiment among U.S. home builders slid in June to the lowest level in more than 16 years as tighter lender practices and rising mortgage rates crimped sales, the National Association of Home Builders said on Monday.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Association's application index fell 7.6% to 603.8 in the week ended Dec. 21, the lowest since Dec. '06, despite lower borrowing costs. Both home purchase and refi applications fell. Mortgage applications have been especially volatile in recent weeks. Fixed 30-year mortgage rates fell 8 basis points to 6.1%. One-year adjustable rates tumbled 46 basis points to a 1-month low of 6.03%.  U.S. commercial paper issuance grew by $1.2 bil in the week ended Dec. 26 to $1.785 tril, after a big decline in the previous week, the Fed said. But asset-backed paper fell by $15. ...
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Business & money: Lowest August mortgage approvals since 2000.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Association said its mortgage applications index fell 3.8% in the June 22 week to the lowest level in 4 months. Applications are still 16.8% above the year-ago level. Mortgage rates held near recent highs. Refinance applications slid 2.5% to its lowest level of the year. Applications for buying a home fell 4.9%, but only to a 4-week low.
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Homebuilder sentiment slid in July to  its lowest since January 1991 as fallout from the housing slump  and subprime mortgage crisis caused a glut of new homes, the  National Association of Home Builders said on Tuesday.
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Housing starts fell to their lowest level in 12 years last month, while permits for new construction also declined, pointing to a further weakening of an already battered housing market.
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An index measuring U.S. house prices suffered its worst decline since its creation 20 years ago, and there is no sign of a bottom for the market, according to a report compiled by Standard and Poor's and economist Robert Shiller.
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Prices of existing U.S. single-family  homes fell in the first quarter from a year earlier for the  first time since 1991, the Standard & Poor&#39;s/Case Shiller  national home price index reported on Tuesday.
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U.S. home construction last year plummeted at a rate not seen since 1980, according to government figures released yesterday, one more indication of the depth of the building industry's problems.
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Business & money: Numbers of buyers unable to purchase first home slump to the lowest level since 1980
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U.S. homebuilder optimism sank for an  eighth consecutive month in September to the lowest level in  more than 15 years, with a surge in the backlog of unsold homes  putting development on ice, an industry survey showed on  Monday.
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Home construction starts fell 2.6 percent in August to their lowest level in more than 12 years while building permit activity, a sign of future construction plans, also dropped to a low not seen since mid-1995, a government report on Wednesday showed.
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WASHINGTON - Sales of existing homes edged down a less-than-expected 0.1 percent in October as low mortgage rates continued to support a record year, a trade association report showed Tuesday.
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The pace of existing home sales in  the United States in April fell to their lowest since June 2003  while inventories swelled, the National Association of Realtors  said in a report on Friday that showed more weakness than  analysts had expected.
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Interest rates on U.S. 30- and 15-year mortgages fell this week to their lowest levels since early April as the housing market showed little sign of slowing despite the Federal Reserve's move to raise interest rates, mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said on Thursday.
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U.S. construction spending fell a  sharper-than-expected 1 percent last month as home building  posted a seventh straight drop, according to a government  report on Friday that underscored the weakness in the U.S.  housing market.
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Amid economic slump, region's new residential building permits fall to lowest levels since 1991.