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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 Housing Starts
Housing starts in the US fell 6.5 per cent in May to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.001 million, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That marked the first decline in four months. The decline was broad-based across regions and type of construction. Single-family housing starts fell 5.9 per cent, while multifamily fell 7.6 per…
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US Real Estate, Mortgages
Asking home prices rose at their slowest rate in 13 months, rising just 8 per cent year-over-year, or 7.2 per cent excluding foreclosures, according to Trulia Thursday. Although this year-over-year increase is slower than in previous months, an 8 per cent increase is still far above the long-term historical norm for home-price appreciation, the agency…
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House Prices, US
Home prices in 20 US cities rose at a slower pace in the year ended in March as the housing market began to weaken at the start of 2014. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values increased 12.4 percent from March 2013, the smallest 12-month gain since July, after rising 12.9 percent in the year…
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US Real Estate
A report April 11 from Zelman & Associates said it the analyst firm now expected a 5 per cent drop in sales of previously owned homes in America for 2014, to a seasonally adjusted annual level of 4.8 million units. At the start of this year, the firm had forecast nearly a 6 per cent…
