Housing Starts: release dates, results and history
Housing Starts last printed 1.27M on Thu, Sep 17, 2026 against a 1.31M consensus forecast and a 1.24M prior, exactly on consensus. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
Housing is the most rate-sensitive part of the economy, so starts are a live read on how hard Fed tightening is biting. The signal sits in single-family, because multifamily comes in lumps and pulls the headline around with it. When GDP turns, the swings in residential investment matter more than the size of the sector suggests.
The trend
How it moves Treasuries
A starts beat sells Treasuries off a little. The bigger use is confirmation. When the market wants to argue for cuts, housing rolling over is one of the first things it reaches for. See it scored live on the Helious desk, or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
Recent prints, as captured by the desk
| DATE | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PRIOR | SURPRISE (SD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.27M | 1.31M | 1.24M | 0.00 | ON THE SCREWS | |
| 1.24M | 1.35M | 1.43M | 0.00 | BELOW FORECAST | |
| 1.43M | — | 1.18M | — | ABOVE PRIOR |
The 3 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the API.
Official series history
| PERIOD | VALUE (M UNITS SAAR) | PRIOR | CHANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.27M | 1.31M | -0.03M | |
| 1.31M | 1.44M | -0.13M | |
| 1.44M | 1.18M | +0.26M | |
| 1.18M | 1.41M | -0.23M | |
| 1.41M | 1.52M | -0.11M | |
| 1.52M | 1.35M | +0.18M | |
| 1.35M | 1.39M | -0.04M | |
| 1.39M | 1.38M | +0.01M |
These are the most recent official rows, and the chart above draws the longer series behind them. The desk-captured prints higher up the page carry the consensus forecast and the standard-deviation surprise as they stood the moment each number landed.
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Monthly, ~mid-month, jointly with building permits · 8:30 AM ET · download a sample (CSV, recent rows), free to cite with a link to this page. The full history comes through the Helious API and MCP at api.helious.io/mcp, with depth set by plan.