The annual pace of new home construction increased again last month amid a historic shortage of housing inventory and crushing mortgage rates.
Housing starts, a measure of new home construction, jumped by 1.9% in October, compared to the previous month.
Starts rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.372 million last month, rising above expectations of 1.35 million, according to data released Wednesday by the Census Bureau.
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