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New home sales up 0.7 percent in August; or NOT? Down 3.4 percent from a year ago or down 27.8 percent?

Dennis Norman

Yesterday I did a post about the new home sales report issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce and, just like much of the media and bloggers out there, I reported that new home sales rose in August, albeit a scant 0.7 percent and that the seasonally adjusted annual rate of new home sales [...]

New home sales up slightly in August; Prices down 7 percent for the month

Dennis Norman

This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 429,000, a 0.7 percent increase from July, but a 3.4 percent decrease from a year ago.

The Northeast region after seeing a 32.4 percent increase in sales in July [...]

New home sales for June increase 11% – Inventory drops to 8.8 month supply

Dennis Norman

This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 384,000, an 11% increase from May.  The year over year decline lessened, June’s numbers are down 21.3% from a year ago which is a substantial improvement over May’s [...]

Significant increases in new home sales in Northeast & Midwest for May

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 342,000.  this represents a 0.6% drop from Aprils rate of 344,000 and is almost 33% down from a year ago.

Three of the four regions in the [...]

Residential construction down 4.2% for the month of March; down 34% from last year

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

Today the U.S. Census Bureau released it’s construction spending report for March, 2009 showing that spending on private, residential construction was at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of $258.4 billion.  This is down 4.2% from February and down 34% from a year ago.

In light of what is going on in the housing market [...]

New Home Sales decrease slightly in March

By: Dennis Norman

This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in March decreased 0.6 percent from February and is 30.6% less than a year ago.

A decline of less than 1%, following last February’s increase of 4.7% in sales I think again shows the market is perhaps leveling off.  [...]

New home starts for March down 48.4% from a year ago

By: Dennis Norman

Today the U.S. Department of Commerce reported new home starts for March were down 10.8% from February and down 48.4% from a year ago.

This is a sharp contrast to last months numbers which showed a 22% increase over January.  However, like I said in my post last month, I don’t think the increase was necessarily good news with [...]

New home sales increase in February

By: Dennis Norman

This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in February increased 4.7% over January sales but was still 41.1% less than a year ago.

It will take a lot more than this to conclude that we have “hit bottom” yet in the new home market but I think this is a [...]

Better buy a house now before they’re all gone!

By: Dennis Norman

This morning I received a press release from Move, Inc., the company that operates Realtor.Com for the National Association of REALTORS(R), with a headline that read “One in Five Americans Plan to Buy a Home Despite Economic Conditions.”  After all the bad news about housing I have seen I was elated to see [...]

New home starts up over 22% in February-Is this good news?

By: Dennis Norman

Today the U.S. Department of Commerce reported new home starts for February were up over 22% from January although still over 47% down from a year ago.

This increase was unexpected and judging by the many news stories and blog posts I have seen today is apparently being viewed as good news.  I don’t [...]

Building permits for new homes drop almost 50%

By: Dennis Norman

 

Today the US Department of Commerce released a report on new residential construction for November 2008.  Like so many real estate-related reports we are seeing today it was not pretty.  The report, a joint release of the US Census Bureau and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development says building permits for [...]