Housing construction soared, apartment construction slowed a bit during July, according to a new monthly report from the Builders Association of the Twin Cities.
Twin Cities home builders nail their best month in six years
Housing construction soared, apartment construction slowed during July, according to a new monthly report from the Builders Association of the Twin Cities
By buchtjd
July 25, 2013 at 5:13PM
The group's monthly report, which tracks construction activity for most of the metro cities in the 13-county area, showed that 533 permits to build 698 units were issued during the four-week period ending today. Year-to-date, residential and commercial builders were issued 2,912 permits to build 4,914 units
Of those permit issued this month, 509 were for single-family houses. That was higher than any single month in six years since June 2007 when 537 single-family permits were issued.
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