Monday, January 29. 2007
Q4 vacancies
For-sale-only housing vacancies as percentage of owner-occupied housing
Vacancies were even higher in Q4 than in Q3, itself no slouch.
Given new-home sales still exceed likely household formation rates, I do not think the bottom is in.
FD: short homebuilders
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Tracked: Apr 27, 20:32