Private Residential Construction Spending Up

The NAHB analysis of Census Construction Spending reported a 1.1 increase in total private residential construction spending in December 2021. November 2021 also reported an increase of 0.7%, in fact, total private residential construction spending was 15% higher than reported at the same time last year. Spending was reported at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $810.3 billion.

The growth rates are due to the solid growth of spending on single-family and multifamily construction. Monthly gains in single-family construction rose 2.1% to a $435 billion annual pace in December 2021. As for multifamily construction, there was a 0.4% increase in December 2021. Spending was a little down because of the supply chain issues and labor shortages.

Private nonresidential construction spending stayed steady during December 2021. The data shows that the spending was 9.1% higher than a year ago. As far as the separate spending in each category was $0.49 billion in office, $0.4 billion in amusement and recreation and $0.37 billion in lodging.

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Holiday Spending Will Be Backed by the Rising Consumer Confidence This Year

 

The COVID-19 vaccines are helping to get Americans back out into the physical consumer world. Even with the supply chain problems and rocket high inflation, consumers are still planning on spending the bucks this holiday season.

The Consumer Confidence Index saw a rise in the third quarter of 2021 to 113.8 points. The level seen this October was the highest level seen since July 2021. American's mindset also rose for future consumer spending. Many see purchasing a house car and major appliances before the year-end.

Close to 50% of those surveyed are planning on taking a vacation in the next six months. This is the highest level we have seen before the pandemic.

"While short-term inflation concerns rose to a 13-year high, the impact on confidence was muted," said Lynn Franco, The Conference Board's senior director of economic indicators.

In a nutshell, Americans are not fazed by price inflation. Luckily this is pushing the labor market to recover. It will be a while before consumers get fed up with the price inflations.

"And most of that is due to the job market," said Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO. "And though the share of those respondents finding that jobs are plentiful slipped a bit this month, the share of those who find that jobs are hard to get fell even more."

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