| By Dennis Norman,on January 26th,2012 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for December 2011 showing a decrease of 2.2 percent from the month before,and a decrease of 7.3 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for December was 307,000 homes,down from an [...] By Dennis Norman,on October 26th,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for September 2011 showing an increase of 5.7 percent from the month before,and a decrease of 0.9 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for September was 313,000 homes,up from an adjusted rate of 296,000 the month before. Unfortunately,even with the increase in the rate of new home sales,the current rate of new home sales is still on track to make 2011 new home sales the lowest since the Commerce Department began keeping track of sales in 1963. [...] By Dennis Norman,on September 26th,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for August 2011 showing a decrease of 2.3 percent from the month before,and an increase of 6.1 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for August was 295,000 homes,down from an [...] By Dennis Norman,on August 23rd,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for July 2011 showing a decrease of 0.7 percent from the month before,and an increase of 6.8 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for July was 298,000 homes,down from an [...] By Dennis Norman,on July 26th,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for June 2011 showing a decrease of 1.0 percent from the month before,and an increase of 1.6 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for June was 312,000 homes,down from 315,000 [...] By Dennis Norman,on June 23rd,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for May 2011 showing a decrease of 2.1 percent from the month before,and an increase of 13.5 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for May was 319,000 homes,down from 326,000 [...] By Dennis Norman,on May 24th,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for April 2011 showing an increase of 7.3 percent from the month before,and a decrease of 23.1 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for April was 323,000 homes. The supply of [...] By Dennis Norman,on April 25th,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for March 2011 showing an increase of 11.1 percent from the month before,and a decrease of 21.9 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for March was 300,000 homes. The supply of [...] By Dennis Norman,on March 23rd,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for February 2011 showing a decrease of 16.9 percent from the month before,and a decrease of 28.0 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for February was 250,000 homes. The supply of [...] By Dennis Norman,on February 24th,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for January 2011 showing a decrease of 12.6 percent from the month before,and a decrease of 18.6 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for January was 284,000 homes. The supply of [...] By Dennis Norman,on January 26th,2011 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for December 2010 showing an increase of 17.5 percent from the month before,but a decrease of 7.6 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for December was 329,000 homes,a 17.5 percent [...] By Dennis Norman,on December 23rd,2010 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for November 2010 showing an increase of 5.50 percent from the month before,but a decrease of 21.2 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for November was 290,000 homes,a 5.5 percent [...] By Dennis Norman,on November 26th,2010 Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for October 2010 showing a decrease of 8.1 percent from the month before,but a decrease of 28.5 percent from a year ago. The seasonally-adjusted new home sales rate for October was 283,000 homes,a 8.1 percent [...] By Dennis Norman,on October 27th,2010 Dennis Norman Today,the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census Bureau released new home sales data for September 2010 showing an increase of 6.6 percent from the month before,but a decrease of 21.5 percent from a year ago. [...] By Dennis Norman,on September 24th,2010 Dennis Norman Last month I reported that July’s new home sales rate of 276,000 homes was the lowest rate on record. Subsequently the Commerce Department revised July and changed the sales rate to 288,000 homes raising July to the second-lowest home sales rate on record. Today,the numbers for August came out and they [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 that [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] | |