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By Dennis Norman, on August 25th, 2010
Dennis Norman
The good news is May’s new home sales rate of 267,000, which was the lowest sales rate on record, was revised upward to 281,000. The bad news is June’s sales rate of 330,000 was revised downward to 315,000 and now new home sales for July were reported at 276,000 the new lowest rate [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 26th, 2010
Dennis Norman
Yes, the headline is correct….New home sales in June were up 23 percent from May, but unfortunately the revised May annual new home sales rate of 267,000 was the lowest rate of sale on record therefore even after a 23.6 percent increase it only brought June up to 330,000 new homes, a rate [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 23rd, 2010
Dennis Norman
Last month after the new home sales reports came out I had this to say:
“I’m very encouraged by home sales in March and April, both in new homes and existing home sales and, if it wasn’t for the fact the homebuyer tax-credit incentive expired April 30th, no doubt a factor [...]
By Dennis Norman, on May 26th, 2010
Dennis Norman
The U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in April were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 504,000, a 14.8 percent increase from the revised March rate of 439,000 and is 47.8 percent above a year ago.
The inventory of new homes (seasonally adjusted) at the [...]
By Dennis Norman, on April 23rd, 2010
Dennis Norman
The U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in March were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 411,000, a 26.9 percent increase from the revised February rate of 324,000 and is 23.8 percent above a year ago.
The inventory of new homes (seasonally adjusted) at the end [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 25th, 2010
Dennis Norman
The U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in February were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 308,000, a 2.2 percent decrease from the revised January rate of 315,000 and is 13.0 percent below a year ago.
The inventory of new homes (seasonally adjsuted) at the end [...]
By Dennis Norman, on February 25th, 2010
Dennis Norman
The U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in January were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000, an 11.2 percent decrease from the revised December rate of 348,000 and is 6.1 percent below a year ago.
The inventory of new homes (seasonally adjsuted) at the [...]
By Dennis Norman, on February 1st, 2010
Dennis Norman
The U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 342,000, a 7.6 percent decrease from the revised November rate of 370,000 and is 8.6 percent below a year ago.
My Mantra
As has been my long-running mantra, I don’t like [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 28th, 2009
Dennis Norman
In a just a few days we will say goodbye to 2009; a year that has been brutal to the housing market. So as the new year comes in, what will 2010 hold in store for the housing market?
To answer this question I turned to the housing forecast just released by Fannie [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
New homes were started in November at an annual rate of 482,000 homes and I asked why in my post last week since new home construction was already outpacing sales….well, today the gap got worse..
This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in November were [...]
By Dennis Norman, on November 25th, 2009
Dennis Norman
This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 430,000, a 6.2 percent increase from the revised September rate of 405,000 and is 5.1 percent above a year ago.
My Mantra
As has been my long-running mantra, I [...]
By Dennis Norman, on October 28th, 2009
Dennis Norman
This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 402,000, a 3.6 percent decrease from the revised August rate of 417,000 and is 7.8 percent below a year ago.
Like I pointed out however, in my post [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 26th, 2009
Dennis Norman
This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 433,000, a 9.6 percent increase from June and makes the fourth consecutive month of new home sales increases.
The Northeast region saw the biggest monthly increase in new [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 27th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Dennis Norman
The new home market continue to shows some life coming back to it which should be encouraging news to investors. 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.
While [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 24th, 2009
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 [...]
By Dennis Norman, on April 24th, 2009
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. [...]
By Dennis Norman, on February 26th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
This morning the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in January was down 10.2% from December and down over 48% from a year ago.
Prices on new homes continue to drop as well. The median price for January was $201,100, down 2.6% from Decembers
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By Dennis Norman, on December 23rd, 2008
By: Dennis Norman
This morning the National Association of REALTORS(R) released data for existing home sales for November. The numbers show sales of existing homes down 8.6% nationwide versus October and down 10.6% versus last year. The Northeast saw the biggest decline in sales being down 12.0% versus last month and 18.0% versus last year. The west region only [...]
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