United States New Home Sales

Last Release

Mar 31, 2024

Actual

693

Units In

Thousand units

637

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

May 23, 2024

Time to Release

28 Days 23 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
1,389 Jul 2005	270 Feb 2011	655.89 Thousand units	1963-2024	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.

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Sales of new single-family houses in the United States soared 8.8% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 693K in March 2024, the highest level in six months, and rebounding from an upwardly revised 5.1% drop in February. It compares with market forecasts of 668K, with demand remaining robust despite elevated mortgage rates. Sales jumped in the Northeast (27.8% to an annualized rate of 46K), the West (8.6% to 177K), the South (7.7% to 391K) and the Midwest (5.3% to 79K). The median price of new houses sold in the period was $430,700, while the average sales price was $524,800. Meanwhile, there were 477K new homes listed for sale during the period, representing about 8.3 months of supply at the latest sales rate.