US housing starts
continued to accelerate in December, surging 12.1 per cent to 954,000 units at
a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR), the fastest pace of new home
construction since June 2008. Building permit data, a proxy for future
housing starts, edged higher as well to 903,000 (SAAR).
Surging US housing starts suggest that residential investment provided a
significant contribution to US economic growth for the first time since 2005.
This trend, if sustained, bodes well for BC economic growth, and in particular
BC lumber exports in 2013.
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