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Building Permits Plunge Most In 3 Years Despite Tumbling Rates
• https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-17/buildingAfter weak home sales data and re-weakening in mortgage applications (but a modest recovery in homebuilder sentiment), expectations were for a slowdown in starts and permits but the June prints were shockingly bad.
Housing Starts dropped 0.9% MoM (worse than the 0.7% expected) but Building Permits plunged 6.1% MoM - the worst drop since March 2016.
This occurred despite a collapse in mortgage rates during the reporting period.
This is the 6th month in a row of YoY declines in Building Permits...
Under the surface, multi-family starts tumbled 9.4% MoM as single-family jumped 3.5% from 818K to 847K