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Houston New Construction Slowing in 2015

by Peter Thomas Ricci

Building in the Bayou City Stepping Back

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Residential construction spending in the Houston area was down 10 percent year-over-year in June, and so far in 2015 is only 1 percent ahead of where it was last year.

Those encouraging stats came courtesy of the latest Dodge Data & Analytics report, a monthly look at residential construction activity in the nation’s largest metro areas.

Houston Agent assembled a series of graphs on Dodge Data’s findings. Below is total residential construction spending in June:

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Overall construction activity remains very high in Houston, with its annual rate of $814 million only behind Dallas and New York.

Houston’s year-over-year growth, though, suggests the market is slowing down:

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Yearly stats, however, can be volatile, and an area’s year-to-date progress is a better indicator of the market’s actual health:

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At 1 percent, Houston’s year-to-date measurements are also relatively weak, and they indicate that though construction remains very high in the Bayou City, it is slowing down.

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