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Washington, DC, September 17, 2025—Mortgage applications increased 29.7% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending September 12, 2025.
Washington, DC, September 16, 2025—Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes was 32 in September, unchanged from the August reading, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).
Washington, DC, September 16, 2025—The Construction Backlog Indicator fell from 8.8 months in July to 8.5 months in August, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) member survey conducted August 20 to September 3.
Washington, DC, September 16, 2025—Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for August 2025 were $732.0 billion, up 0.6% from the previous month, and up 5.0% from August 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Washington, DC, September 16, 2025—Industrial production (IP) ticked up 0.1% in August after decreasing 0.4% in July, according to the Federal Reserve.
Washington, DC, September 16, 2025—U.S. import prices advanced 0.3% in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, following a 0.2% increase in July.
Birmingham, MI, September 16-Floor Trends & Installation, a long-standing trade publication serving the flooring industry, announced that it will cease operations after its September 2025 issue.
Seattle, WA, September 15, 2025—America's homes are now worth a record $55.1 trillion, a massive $20 trillion jump since the eve of the pandemic, according to a new Zillow analysis.
Seattle, WA, September 15, 2025—Roughly half (48%) of newly built apartments completed in the first quarter of 2025 were rented within three months, according to a new report from Redfin. That is up from 47% in the fourth quarter of 2024 and 46% the quarter before that.
Washington, DC, September 15, 2025-Retail spending continued to grow in August as consumers stocked up on school supplies and tried to beat rising tariffs that could be beginning to affect prices, according to the CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor, released by the National Retail Federation.