The Number: 1.9%

That's the percentage of owned houses that are vacant, the lowest since 2005. In today's installment of The Number, global business editor Daniel Gross talks with Wall Street Journal columnist Justin Lahart and confirms, once again: housing is back!

Updated Apr. 21, 2017 2:56PM ET / Published Nov. 13, 2012 2:48PM ET

That's the percentage of owned houses that are vacant, the lowest since 2005. In today's installment of The Number, global business editor Daniel Gross talks with Wall Street Journal columnist Justin Lahart and confirms, once again: housing is back!