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housing start
noun
- an instance of beginning the construction of a dwelling.
- housing starts, the nationwide number of such instances per period used especially in the U.S. as an indication of economic growth or decline:
Housing starts were up 600,000 in April.
Example Sentences
We know that housing starts in the last financial year were less than 135,000.
That would represent a pullback from November, when housing starts surged by nearly 15% from October to the highest level in six months.
Single-family housing starts have now risen three months in a row and are outpacing home completions for the first time since the spring of last year.
Treasury yields , which also bounced on Friday and were propped further by both Federal Reserve hawkishness and unexpected housing starts data from last month.
On the economic data front, markets will monitor the housing starts data for October, scheduled for release at 8:30 a.m.
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