United States New Home Sales

Last Release

Aug 31, 2025

Actual

800

Units In

Thousand units

664

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Oct 24, 2025

Time to Release

27 Days 22 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
1,389 Jul 2005	270 Feb 2011	656.56 Thousand units	1963-2025	U.S. Census Bureau

A sale of the new house occurs with the signing of a sales contract or the acceptance of a deposit. The house can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction, or already completed. New home sales account for about 10 percent of the US housing market. New single-family home sales are extremely volatile month-to-month and preliminary figures are subject to large revisions because they are mostly drawn from building permits data.

Latest Updates

Sales of new single-family homes in the United States jumped by 20.5% from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 800K units in August 2025, the highest level since January 2022, following an upwardly revised 664K in July and beating forecasts of 650K. Discounting and promotional offers were probably the main forces behind the surge. Sales soared in the Northeast (72.2% to 31K), the South (24.7% to 530K), the Midwest (12.7% to 89K) and the West (5.6% to 150K). Meanwhile, the number of unsold homes on the market fell 1.4% to 490K, equivalating to 7.4 months of inventory at the latest sales pace. The median sales price was $413,500, 4.7% higher than in the previous month.