United States New Home Sales

Last Release

Jul 31, 2025

Actual

652

Units In

Thousand units

656

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Sep 24, 2025

Time to Release

28 Days 19 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
1,389 Jul 2005	270 Feb 2011	656.35 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 eased by 0.6% from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 652,000 units in July of 2025, trimming the revised 4.1% increase in the earlier period and above market expectations of a 630,000 sold homes. Regionally, sales fell sharply in the Mid-west (-6.6% to 85,000) and the South (-3.5% to 388,000), offsetting growth in the West (11.7% to 153,00). In turn, new home sales remained unchanged in the Northeast (at 26,000). In the meantime, the number of unsold homes on the market also fell by 0.6% to 499,000, equivalating to 9.2 months of inventory at the latest sales pace. The median sales price was $403,800, 0.8% below the price from the last month.