August 2023 US Housing Market Indicators: Mortgage Rate Increases to Highest in Over 21 Years

What's Inside

The Coresight Research US Housing Market Indicators series analyzes the current housing market landscape in the US, based on a range of metrics. We identify the factors influencing the industry and resulting in changes in supply and demand with inputs for the retail sector.

This report analyzes the latest data available as of the end of July 2023.

Data in this report include:

• US housing permits, starts and completions
• US existing home sales
• US Pending Home Sales Index
• US new home sales
• US Housing Affordability Index

Other relevant research:

• The previous US Housing Market Indicators report
• Market Outlook: US Home-Improvement Retailing—Personalization and the Resurrection of In-Store Retail
• Our complete coverage of home and home-improvement retail
• View our full collection of monthly reports, which keep you up to date on retail sales (in total and by sector) and key consumer indicators, focusing on the US, the UK and China.