Annualized Housing Starts

The Annualized Housing Starts released by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport captures how many new single-family homes or buildings were constructed. It shows the strength of the Japanese housing market, which can be considered as the economy as a whole due to Housing Starts' sensitivity to changes in the business cycle. A high reading is seen as positive, or bullish for the JPY, while a low reading is seen as negative, or bearish.

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Most recent - Friday 29 August 2025 05:00

0.647M

Revised

Actual

0.712M

Trading range

Announcement history

The most recent announced value for Annualized Housing Starts was 0.712M.

Past events

Date

Actual

Friday 29 August 2025 05:00

0.712M

Thursday 31 July 2025 05:00

0.647M

Monday 30 June 2025 05:00

0.529M

Wednesday 30 April 2025 05:00

1.08M

Monday 31 March 2025 05:00

0.805M

Friday 28 February 2025 05:00

0.774M

Friday 31 January 2025 05:00

0.787M

Thursday 26 December 2024 05:00

0.775M

Friday 29 November 2024 05:00

0.7M

Thursday 31 October 2024 05:00

0.8M

Monday 30 September 2024 05:00

0.777M

Friday 30 August 2024 05:00

0.773M

Wednesday 31 July 2024 05:00

0.765M

Friday 28 June 2024 05:00

0.813M

Friday 31 May 2024 05:00

0.88M

Tuesday 30 April 2024 05:00

0.76M

Friday 29 March 2024 05:00

0.795M

Thursday 29 February 2024 05:00

0.802M

Wednesday 31 January 2024 05:00

0.814M

Wednesday 27 December 2023 05:00

0.775M

Thursday 30 November 2023 05:00

0.808M

Tuesday 31 October 2023 05:00

0.8M

Friday 29 September 2023 05:00

0.812M

Thursday 31 August 2023 05:00

0.778M

Monday 31 July 2023 05:00

0.811M

Friday 30 June 2023 05:00

0.862M

Wednesday 31 May 2023 05:00

0.771M

Friday 28 April 2023 05:00

0.877M

Friday 31 March 2023 05:00

0.859M

Tuesday 28 February 2023 05:00

0.893M

Tuesday 31 January 2023 05:00

0.846M

Tuesday 27 December 2022 05:00

0.838M

Wednesday 30 November 2022 05:00

0.871M

Monday 31 October 2022 05:00

0.857M

Friday 30 September 2022 05:00

0.903M

Wednesday 31 August 2022 05:00

0.825M

Economic context

Recent economic data has been strongly bearish for JPY. Other recent announcements which may affect the market's interpretation of the next Annualized Housing Starts result:

		Previous	Latest
Large Retailer Sales	Bullish change	1%	2%
Retail Trade (YoY)	Bearish change	1.9%	0.3%
Retail Trade s.a (MoM)	Bearish change	0.9%	-1.6%
Tokyo Consumer Price Index (YoY)	Bearish change	2.9%	2.6%
Tokyo CPI ex Food, Energy (YoY)	Bearish change	3.1%	3%
Tokyo CPI ex Fresh Food (YoY)	Bearish change	2.9%	2.5%
Unemployment Rate	Bullish change	2.5%	2.3%
National Consumer Price Index (YoY)	Bearish change	3.3%	3.1%
National CPI ex Food, Energy (YoY)	(no change)	3.4%	3.4%
National CPI ex Fresh Food (YoY)	Bearish change	3.3%	3.1%
Adjusted Merchandise Trade Balance	Bearish change	¥-247.6B	¥-303B
Exports (YoY)	Bearish change	-0.5%	-2.6%
Imports (YoY)	Bearish change	0.3%	-7.5%
Merchandise Trade Balance Total	Bearish change	¥152.1B	¥-117.5B

About Annualized Housing Starts

Country:	Japan
Currency:	JPY
Source:	Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan
Category:	Housing Market
Frequency:	Monthly

Related events

	Australia		Building Permits (MoM)
	New Zealand		Building Permits s.a. (MoM)
	United States		Pending Home Sales (MoM)
	United States		Existing Home Sales Change (MoM)
	United States		New Home Sales Change (MoM)
	United States		Housing Starts (MoM)
	United States		Building Permits (MoM)

Calendar - Annualized Housing Starts - Japan