Residential construction has been on the rise throughout the country in 2013, but what of here in Houston?
October was a very good month for residential construction in Houston. How good? Try these three facts:
- In October, the latest month for which McGraw-Hill Construction has data, residential construction in Houston topped out at a whopping $646 million.
- Incredibly, that’s up 7 percent from October 2012.
- Among major metropolitan areas, only Dallas and New York City had larger residential construction numbers.
How does that growth, though, compare with the rest of the nation? And how has Houston done throughout all of 2013? To find out, we consulted further data provided by McGraw-Hill, and put together the following graphs: