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|**Secondary Market Report** | **October 1998**
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### TABLE 8
Trend of Builder's Plans Compared to Previous Month
by Housing Price Category
(Percent of Field Offices Reporting)



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`Oct 1998                       Oct 1997  
                --------------------            -------------------
                ------ Trend -------            ------ Trend ------             
                Down    Stable  Up              Down    Stable  Up
                ----    ------  ---             ----    ------  ---
Low-Priced      17%     70%     13%              9%     82%      9%
Mod-Priced       4%     79%     17%              5%     69%     26%
High-priced      4%     74%     22%              7%     71%     22%
All              2%     81%     17%              4%     79%     17%
                                                                
                                                                
                       Sep 1998                       Sep 1997  
                --------------------            -------------------
                ------ Trend -------            ------ Trend ------             
                Down    Stable  Up              Down    Stable  Up
                ----    ------  ---             ----    ------  ---
Low-Priced      15%     75%     10%              7%     79%     14%
Mod-Priced       2%     75%     23%              3%     74%     23%
High-priced      2%     71%     27%              3%     76%     21%
All              0%     81%     19%              0%     83%     17%
                                                                
                                                
                       Aug 1998                       Aug 1997  
                --------------------            -------------------
                ------ Trend -------            ------ Trend ------             
                Down    Stable  Up              Down    Stable  Up
                ----    ------  ---             ----    ------  ---
Low-Priced      17%     75%      8%              7%     80%     13%
Mod-Priced       2%     85%     13%              2%     76%     22%
High-priced      2%     79%     19%              3%     75%     22%
All              0%     87%     13%              0%     85%     15%
                                                                
                                                                
PERCENTAGE POINT DIFFERENCE                                                             
                                                                
                 AUG 1998 - OCT 1998             AUG 1997 - OCT 1997            
                --------------------            --------------------
                ------ Trend -------            ------ Trend -------            
                Down    Stable  Up              Down    Stable  Up
                ----    ------  ---             ----    ------  ---             
Low-Priced       0%      -5%     5%              2%      2%     -4%
Mod-Priced       2%      -6%     4%              3%     -7%      4%
High-priced      2%      -5%     3%              4%     -4%      0%
All              2%      -6%     4%              4%     -6%      2%`