New Home Sales Crater In January, Opening The Door For Deals With Builders

Not all housing reports are sunny, it seems. In its monthly New Home Sales release, the U.S. Department of Commerce showed a 13 percent drop-off in annualized new construction sales between the months of December and January. It’s the biggest one-month drop in New Home Sales since May 2010. In...

New Home Sales Reach 8-Month High

Sales of new homes rose sharply in December, posting a 17.5 percent gain from the month prior. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, New Home Sales climbed to 329,000 in December, besting November by close to 50,000 units on a seasonally-adjusted annual basis. Last month’s...

New Home Sales Rise In November; Hint At Strong Winter 2011

Like most housing data in November, the most recent New Home Sales report showed sales volume increasing last month, and home supplies falling. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, sales of new, single-family homes increased to 290,000 in November on an annual basis, a figure equal to the New Home...

New Home Sales Slip In October

After posting a strong September, the number of newly-built homes sold nationwide slipped in October. Total units sold on an annual basis dropped by 25,000 from September; supplies of new homes climbed 0.7 months. Home supply is back to its rolling, 6-month average of 8.6 months. Like everything else in...

New Home Housing Stock Drops To A 5-Month Low

In the same week that the National Association of REALTORS reported home resales up 10 percent in September, the U.S. Census Bureau reported similarly strong results for the new construction market.  After improving 1 percent in August, New Home Sales popped another 7 percent in September. It’s...

New Home Sales Unchanged In August; Market Stabilizing

Existing Home Sales rebounded last month after a lackluster July. New Home Sales data, by contrast, did not. After an upward revision to July’s data, New Home Sales remained unchanged at 288,000 units in August. It marks the second-lowest number of units sold in a month since 1963, the year government...

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