United States Nahb Housing Market Index 1985-2018 | Data | Chart

The NAHB Housing Market Index in the United States fell to 68 in June of 2018 from 70 in May, lower than market expectations of 70. The index measuring current single-family home sales edged down to 75 from 76 and the component gauging sales expectations in the next six months fell slightly to 76 from 77. Meanwhile, the prospective buyer index also decreased to 50 from 51. Nahb Housing Market Index in the United States averaged 49.98 from 1985 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 78 in December of 1998 and a record low of 8 in January of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-04-16	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	69	70	71	69
2018-05-15	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	70	68	69	69
2018-06-18	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index	68	70	70	68
2018-07-17	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index		68	68	68
2018-08-15	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index				69
2018-09-18	02:00 PM	NAHB Housing Market Index				70

United States Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Building Permits	1301.00	1364.00	2419.00	513.00	Thousand	[+]
Housing Starts	1350.00	1286.00	2494.00	478.00	Thousand	[+]
New Home Sales	689.00	646.00	1389.00	270.00	Thousand	[+]
Pending Home Sales	-2.20	-2.10	30.90	-24.30	percent	[+]
Existing Home Sales	5430.00	5450.00	7250.00	1370.00	Thousand	[+]
Construction Spending	0.40	0.90	5.90	-4.80	percent	[+]
Housing Index	0.10	0.20	1.20	-1.80	percent	[+]
Nahb Housing Market Index	68.00	70.00	78.00	8.00		[+]
Mortgage Rate	4.76	4.79	10.56	3.47	percent	[+]
Mortgage Applications	2.50	-0.50	49.10	-38.80	percent	[+]
Case Shiller Home Price Index	210.17	208.50	210.17	100.00	Index Points	[+]
Home Ownership Rate	64.20	64.20	69.20	62.90	percent	[+]

United States Nahb Housing Market Index

NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) is based on a monthly survey of home builders. They are asked to rate current sales of single-family homes and sales expectations for the next six months and to rate traffic of prospective buyers. Scores for responses to each component are used to calculate a seasonally adjusted overall index, where a number over 50 indicates more builders view sales conditions as good than poor. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Nahb Housing Market Index - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Nahb Housing Market Index - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2018.