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US New and Existing Home Sales: May
New single-family home sales in the US reached the highest pace in six years in May. According to estimates from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development released Tuesday, new home sales were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 504,000 in May, a gain of 18.6 per cent over a…
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US 1Q 2014 Homes Sales 43 Per Cent All-Cash
All-cash purchases accounted for almost 43 per cent of all sales of US residential property in 1Q 2014, up from almost 38 per cent in the previous quarter and 19 per cent in 1Q 2013, according to data released Thursday from real-estate data firm RealtyTrac. Institutional investors — people or companies that have purchased at…