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New Home Sales Plunge 11% In January

New Home Sales Plunge 11% In January

Courtesy of Joe Weisenthal at Clusterstock/Business Insider  

home sales - tbiSome more ugly data out of the Census department regarding new home sales: 

Sales of new single-family houses in January 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.  This is 11.2 percent (±14.0%)* below the revised December rate of 348,000 and is 6.1 percent (±15.1%)* below the January 2009 estimate of 329,000.

The median sales price of new houses sold in January 2010 was $203,500; the average sales price was $254,500.  The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of January was 234,000.  This represents a supply of 9.1 months at the current sales rate.

Analysts had been looking for 325,000, so this is a solid miss.

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