Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 13, 2005
House prices, residential investment, and home sales all set records again in 2004. But higher short-term interest rates and the strongest one-year price appreciation since…
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September 6, 2004
Despite job losses in the rest of the economy, housing had another record-breaking year in 2003. Home sales, single-family housing starts, residential fixed investment,…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 1, 2004
With investors focused primarily on the upper segment and policymakers on the lower, the middle of the rental housing market has gone largely unexamined. Nonetheless, the 14…
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June 1, 2003
Despite the 2001 recession and weak ensuing recovery, by most measures 2002 was the strongest year for housing on record. Residential investment, home sales, homeownership…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 4, 2002
With the economy emerging from its first recession in nearly a decade, the housing sector continues to display remarkable resilience. Even after the events of September 11th…
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June 11, 2001
Housing markets stood up well in 2000 despite growing uncertainty about the direction of the economy. After years of rapidly rising rents and home prices, however, housing…
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June 10, 2000
Housing markets began the twentyfirst century on a high note. Buoyed by the longest economic expansion in history, home sales, homeownership rates, and the value of…
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June 10, 1999
Housing had another record-setting year in 1998. Home sales reached new peaks, housing starts topped 1.6 million units, and the value of residential construction hit an…
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
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June 10, 1998
Now in its eighth year of sustained growth, the U.S. economy has brought unprecedented strength to housing production and sales. Spurred by strong employment growth, low…
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June 5, 1997
As the end of 1997 approaches, sweeping public polity initiatives are joining with long-term demographic, income, and mobility trends to fundamentally alter the state of the…