PMC Mortgage Lender's Blog Housing Starts Expected to Climb in 2011 March 11th, 2011 11:43 AM During the recent 2011 International Builders Show, David Crowe, chief economist of the National Association of Home Builders, stated single-family housing starts will rise by 21% in 2011, reaching 575,000 units. Crowe’s upbeat economic estimate is slightly more conservative than the Dec. 30 projection of 716,000 housing starts offered by Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors®. Both estimates assume sustained job growth, increasing U.S. population, and continued low interest rates driving construction. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is forecast to rise gradually to 5.3% around the end of 2011; at the same time, unemployment should drop to 9.2%, according to NAR. “All the indicator trends are pointing to a gradual housing recovery,” Yun says. (Link: 2011) Posted by Customer Service on March 11th, 2011 11:43 AMPost a Comment (0) * Name: * Email Address: URL: Comment: Type the characters you see in this picture, click "Submit" when finished.   This helps us prevent automated programs from posting comments and sending spam. * Name: * Email Address: Address: City: State: Zip:   This helps us prevent automated programs from creating bogus contacts and adding them to your contacts database.

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