Commercial, Multifamily Starts Fall 9% in First Half of 2017 via Multifamily Executive Magazine

In eight of the top 10 metropolitan markets, the dollar volume of commercial and multifamily construction starts decreased on a year-over-year basis, according to the latest Dodge Data & Analytics report, covering the first half of 2017. At the same time, nine of the next 10 metro markets (ranked Nos. 11–20) experienced start growth, indicating that smaller metro areas are “picking up the slack” from the deceleration under way in larger cities.

On the national level, commercial and multifamily starts totaled $87.5 billion in the first half of 2017, down 9% from the first half of 2016 but up 1% from the first half of 2015.

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