Single-family permits, a guide to future construction, fell 4% to 845,000.
Homebuilding
Beazer shareholders received $33.50 a share in cash.
New-home prices fell 2.7% from a year earlier.
Pending home sales fell 12.7% from a year earlier, close to the lowest level in Redfin records, which begin in 2021.
Permits for new single-family houses were 7.8% higher and those for two-family houses 21.7% higher in the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same period last year.
The 15-year fixed mortgage rate declined, reaching 6.71% from 6.73% a week earlier.
Final-demand producer prices rise 1.3% month over month and 6.3% year over year.
Residential permits rise 15.3% from July; single-family permits edge down.
September brought a 4.8-month supply of homes, while prices recorded their 39th consecutive month of year-over-year gains.
Construction employment is up 1.3% from a year earlier, wood products down 1.8%
The 15-year fixed mortgage rate also increased, reaching 6.73% from 6.60% a week earlier.
Training and testing are underway on sellable roof truss production runs at the new 42,000-square-foot automation facility.
The ISM Manufacturing PMI fell to 54.5% from 54.6% in August.
Developers launched 78,016 apartments; January–September launches were 603,542, up 6.3% from a year earlier.
Private residential construction spending was at an $882.3 billion seasonally adjusted annual rate in August, up from $872.7 billion in July.
The 15-year fixed mortgage rate also increased, reaching 6.60% from 6.42% a week earlier.
Owner-built house completions were 23% lower and apartment-building completions 8% higher so far in 2026 compared with the same period last year.
Wooden starts rose 6.3% to 39,392 units; January–August starts were up 2.2% from a year earlier.
Construction openings were up 17.8% from a year earlier, against a 2.3% rise for all nonfarm industries.
The annual gain followed a 1.6% increase in June, while inflation outpaced nominal home price growth.