Industry body Homes for Scotland cautiously welcomed the increase in private sector house starts.
The number of private sector house starts has risen for the first time in Scotland in five years, according to official figures.
Gene Sperling, director of the White House National Economic Council, said private-sector growth over the last several months has exceeded White House estimates.
In the same sector, House of Fraser reported its best December figures ever.
One sign of positive economic growth is in the housing sector, with house prices still buoyant by recent standards, but elsewhere figures showed that factory activity in the US barely grew in April.
Those exports are generating jobs in every corner of the United States and across every major sector, the White House said last year.
First, the Kauffman Foundation delivered a state of Entrepreneurship address at the National Press Club, then everyone moved over to the White House to talk about various private sector efforts.
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Sensible intervention cannot even buy long-term relief: the plan cannot stop house prices falling and the bloated financial sector shrinking.
The report said these should be delivered by lenders and house builders working together in the private sector, but the government could step in and share some of the risk if it could not happen on a purely commercial basis.
President Barack Obama has worked closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass health care reform and other measures, but there are a number of private-sector figures whose names appear more frequently in White House visitor records.
Although the course for cargo is set, the White House has not yet decided to have the commercial sector transport astronauts.
In future, councillors will judge whether services should be provided in-house, by private contracts, with the voluntary sector or in partnership with other local authorities.
Professor Steve Wilcox of York University, who carried out the analysis, said that in many areas, people who were unable to buy a house could still afford to rent in the private sector.
Today at an event held at the White House, the Obama Administration recognized innovators in the auto sector, and the positive impacts the resurgence of the auto industry is having in communities across the country.
"But while house prices tripled in the years since 1994, private sector rents only increased in line with earnings, and the costs of renting have as a result fallen relative to the costs of buying, " he added.
"Most of us have rented a flat or house at some stage in our lives and the private rented sector is, at its best, a vital provider of good housing, " said housing and planning minister Yvette Cooper.
So, standby for a boost to house-building or, rather, yet another government attempt to stimulate the construction sector, which shrank by almost 8% last year.
Among the chief solutions proposed by the White House: requiring Fannie and Freddie to meet the same capital standards as the private sector banks they once shared the mortgage market with.
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Sir Mervyn, also speaking at Mansion House, said the eurozone debt crisis had pushed up funding costs in the banking sector, which in turn meant the cost of borrowing for businesses and individuals had risen.
Hartford Financial Services ( HIG - news - people ), says the House vote create more opportunities in the next year to 18 months for the health care sector.
The White House has been at the forefront of a similar appreciation of prizes and competitions in the public sector.
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As part of the White House Startup America initiative, the Entrepreneurs in Residence team brings together startup experts from the private sector with immigration experts from within USCIS, and hit the ground running earlier this spring.
We very much hope that the super committee will fulfill its mandate, produce a proposal that is balanced and fair, that doesn't ask any sector of society to bear the burden of reducing our deficits and getting our fiscal house in order.
The Royal Opera House, he added, was financially stable and "a beacon of best practice in the arts sector".
Surveyors expect house sales and prices to increase over the first quarter of 2013 amid signs of growing confidence in the sector, a report has suggested.
He has worked as a policy adviser and economist for 25 years at the White House Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Congress, academia and in the private sector.
But cutting interest rates as a first response to any distress in the financial sector has helped to blow bubbles in asset prices dotcom stocks in the late 1990s, house prices in the 2000s.
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