- Keeping house: nonresidential construction flourishes,
but slow housing starts and credit woes put downward pressure on the
construction market.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The construction industry of 2007 has been something of a see-saw, with total spending numbers depending largely on the margins between the high-rising nonresidential sector and sluggish residential construction. Month after month, the pattern has repeated residential housing starts continue to falter, and some months, the surge ......
- Nonresidential Market Good; Heavy Construction Looking Tighter
Reed Business economist Jim Haughey reports that economic indicators show a strong environment for nonresidential construction. In the nonresidential building market, all economic factors are positive, except those for manufacturing plants, says Haughey. For commercial real estate, rental rates are rising strongly, vacancy rates are falling slowly and new-space demand ......
- Status and Forecast
Total Construction Spending After four consecutive increases, spending fell 0.3 percent in June due to a weak month for the still-booming nonresidential building market and more funding problems for heavy construction. Little change is expected in the next few months. Inflation-adjusted spending is projected to decline further until the end ......
- Producer Price Index introduced for the Nonresidential
Building Construction sector--NAICS 236221.
With the release of data for July 2005, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) expanded the Producer Price Index (PPI) by introducing an index measuring the changes in output prices for new warehouse building construction. This index is classified under a PPI-specific 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code, ......
- Two new construction employment series for specialty trade contractors
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- Home builders benefit
HEADNOTE The decline in nonresidential construction benefits home builders. SINCE THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECESSION began in March 2001, the volume of residential construction has risen substantially, paced by a powerful expansion in production of new single-family homes. But over the same period, the number of workers employed in the construction ......
- The Good Times Roll On
Analysts in some parts of the country may be looking at recent softness in their local real estate markets and worrying that a slowdown in construction is near at hand, but that's not the case in the Pacific Northwest. With property values continuing to climb, local economies holding steady and ......