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The Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development jointly released their monthly report on new home sales early Wednesday morning. The report showed new home sales declined once again, this time to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 588,000 units. The revised December figure...
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Existing-home sales including single family residences, condominiums, townhomes, and co-ops continued to move downward in January, as did their median prices according to the monthly survey released on Monday by the National Association of Realtors. Preliminary January figures indicate that existing...
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The sales of new houses continued to decline in December according to monthly data jointly released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sales of new one-family houses during December were consummated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 604,000, down...
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Existing home sales , including single-family homes, townhomes, condos, and coops slipped 2.2 percent in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.89 million units from an annual pace of 5 million in November. The December figure was 22 percent lower than the 6.27 million sales pace in December...
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There was the tiniest ray of sunshine in the September New Residential Sales Report issued on Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Good news is usually relative but in the current environment most of us take what we can get and the news that new...
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Sales of existing homes declined again in September according to information released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) but the third quarter overall was better than analysts had predicted. Total existing home sales which include single family houses, town houses, and condos...
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Probably no one who has read a paper or a website in the last 60 days expected anything different, but the monthly report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Tuesday confirmed that once again the sales of existing homes fell in August. Total existing home sales which include single family...
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Sales of new homes improved slightly in July with a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 870,000, up 2.8 percent above the revised June sales figures. The June number had been particularly dismal at an annualized 834,000 units, well below the 895,000 units analysts had been expecting. The final figure...
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There was mixed news on the existing housing front in last month. The monthly survey by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) ® showed the sales of existing homes , including single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and co-ops declined 3.8 percent off of the pace in May to a seasonally adjusted...
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On Thursday the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development released figures for new home sales in April that showed a big increase in sales and a drop in both median and average home sale prices. Media coverage has speculated that the both outcomes were a result of price cuts by...
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First read the press release issued on Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors regarding data on the sale of existing homes in December and for all of 2006 and then read the New York Times article on the same topic. We will then have a spirited discussion on the subject of reality, slant, and...
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The housing market threw the world another curve on Thursday. After five straight months of declining sales of existing homes, a sixth dreary month was pretty generally expected. Instead the National Association of Realtors announced that February sales of previously-owned homes had jumped 5.2 percent...
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Home sales, at least those of existing homes, fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.97 million units in November according to the sales report issued on Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). This is a 1.7 percent decrease from the 7.09 million units sold in October. Sales were...