National builder confidence in the market for newly-built, single-family homes rose for a fifth consecutive month in September to a level of 40 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). This latest three-point gain brings the index to its highest reading since June of 2006.

In the Northeast, the HMI posted a two-point gain to 30. 

NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe said that builders across the country are expressing a more positive outlook on current sales conditions, future sales prospects and the amount of consumer traffic they are seeing than they have in more than five years.

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