Only the first ten months of this year, 155.77 thousand families hired financing with resources from savings in a volume of $ 14.16 billion - a growth of 87% compared to 2006. By the end of the year, the Caixa Economica Federal to help with other R $ 14 billion for real estate financing.
With a growing volume of resources available, the building industry experiencing a boom unprecedented in the last decade: the first seven months of the year, more than 27 thousand apartments and houses were launched only in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, according to the Company Brazilian de Studies Heritage (Embraesp).
Throughout the year 2006 were 34.7 thousand residential units. The growth of the sector is so fast that the construction industry faces problems such as lack of material and equipment.
Source: G1 - Globo.com