Sentence examples for builder optimism from inspiring English sources

But there were other factors beside the tax credit, like an increase in builder optimism and housing starts, that helped push sales higher.

Builders' optimism seems to have improved.

Home builders' optimism improved in February after falling a month earlier to the lowest level in four years, a construction industry survey said today.

And although the association's monthly index of builders' optimism was at 62 in April, down from 77 last June, largely because of interest rate concerns, he noted that it was still far above the historical average of about 50.

A regular survey of builders' optimism by the National Association of Home Builders dropped again in June, reaching its lowest level since April 1995.The American current-account deficit narrowed in the first three months of 2006 as the trade balance improved and the investment-income balance shifted from deficit to surplus.

"Builders' optimism is picking up".

Lower mortgage rates help explain why an index of optimism among builders rose this month.

But while these dark images were being produced, so were the "Builders," and in them optimism found a voice.

The statistics on permits indicated optimism among home builders, said David Seiders, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders.

A separate report showed that optimism among home builders rose for a second month in June as mortgage rates fell to another record.

Adding to the optimism over the housing sector, the home builder D. R. Horton announced a first-quarter profit of $192 million, sending shares of the company up nearly 11 percent.