Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Multifamily starts forecast revised lower
Fannie Mae’s September housing forecast calls for fewer multifamily housing starts in 2024 and 2025 than in last month’s forecast. The downward revision follows...
Fed delivers large interest rate cut
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and, in an unusual pre-election move, decided to lower their target interest rate by 0.5 percentage...
Outlook for multifamily starts brightens
Fannie Mae’s August housing forecast calls for a higher level of multifamily housing starts in 2024 than predicted in last month’s forecast. This is...
Higher growth for multifamily starts predicted
Fannie Mae’s July housing forecast calls for higher levels of multifamily housing starts in 2024 and 2025 than in their two most recent past...
Multifamily starts predicted to pick up in 2025
Fannie Mae’s May economic forecast calls for multifamily housing starts to reach their low point in Q2 2024 and then to rise, if unevenly,...
Fed foresees only one rate cut in 2024
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep interest rates unchanged. The Fed forecast that interest rates will end 2024 higher...
Forecast: multifamily starts lower as interest rates to remain high
Fannie Mae’s May economic forecast calls for multifamily housing starts to decline through the end of 2024 before slowly recovering in 2025 despite persistently...
Fannie Mae sees lower multifamily starts as inflation persists
Fannie Mae’s April economic forecast calls for multifamily housing starts to decline modestly through the end of 2025. Single-family housing starts are expected to...
Fed raises rate forecast for 2025
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep the Fed Funds rate unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for...
Fannie Mae lowers housing starts forecasts on higher interest rates
Fannie Mae’s March economic forecast calls for multifamily housing starts to decline modestly through the end of 2025. Single-family housing starts are expected to...
Fannie Mae predicts a soft landing for economy
Fannie Mae’s February economic forecast calls for a steady decline in inflation while both GDP growth and employment growth remain positive, if subdued. The...
Fannie Mae no longer forecasts recession
Fannie Mae’s January economic forecast is their first since April 2022 that does not anticipate that the U.S. economy will go into recession as...
Fannie Mae sees milder housing downturn
Fannie Mae’s December economic and housing forecast predicts that single-family and multifamily starts will fall in 2024, but not as far as they predicted...
Fed backs off higher for longer
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep the Fed Funds rate unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for...
GDP downturn still expected, but later
Fannie Mae’s November economic and housing forecast still predicts that GDP growth will turn negative, but not until later than in their prior forecasts. With...