The rise in housing starts in December, as well as the upward revisions to the previous two months’ data, suggests that homebuilding was gathering momentum in the closing stages of 2014. The latest decline in mortgage interest rates and the encouraging labour market recovery mean that this strength will continue into 2015.
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