Housing starts dropped by a marginal 0.2% m/m in April, driven by the single-family sector which also saw building permits fall for the second month in a row. Housing demand is faltering due to a surge in mortgage interest rates to a 12-year high, which helped push homebuilding confidence to a two-year low in May. That said, pent-up demand from the past couple of years means we are not expecting a crash in housing market activity, and single-family starts will fall gradually to around 1m annualised by end-2022.
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