New Residential Construction
Building Permits, Housing Starts, and Housing Completions
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- Current Press Release (PDF) Current Press Release (Excel)
- Building Permits – Data, Documentation, Release Dates, Ordering Information and Other Topics
- Quarterly Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design – US and Regions (PDF)
Quarterly Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design – US and Regions (Excel) - Annual Characteristics of New Housing (US and Regions)
- The “NEW” SOC Microdata files and Documentation are now available!!
- Length of Time from Authorization to Start and from Start to Completion
- Comparing New Home Sales and New Residential Construction
- Survey Documentation
- Analysis of Revisions
- Relationship of Permits, Starts, and Completions
- 2011-2012 Release Dates
- Historic Press Releases
- Historic Release Dates