The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., is expecting big things for the residential market in 2016 with a 23% national increase to 877,000 housing starts. As a predictor of future activity, your best bet is building permits. Check out which local market logged the most building permits through Sept. 2015 (the most recent data available), and will probably be the largest contributors to single-family construction in 2016.