The seasonally adjusted rate of new building permits rose to 1.05 million, which is 8.1% above the upwardly revised June rate of 973,000 and 7.7% above the July 2013 rate of 977,000.
Single-family housing starts rose to an annualized rate of 656,000 in July, up 8.3% from the revised June rate of 606,000.
Permits for new single-family homes rose 0.9% in July to an adjusted annual rate of 640,000, from an upwardly revised total of 634,000 in June.
Multi-family starts for buildings with five or more units, a more volatile number than single-family starts, rose 15.4% year-over-year in July.
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