New home sales fall more than expected
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New single-family home sales fell 4.7 percent in December to its lowest rate in nearly 13 years while the median sales price dropped sharply and the inventory of unsold homes climbed, according to a government report on Monday that delivered more grim news for the battered housing sector.
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Sales of new homes fell in June for the first time in four months, and the government also lowered figures for May, providing further evidence the high-flying housing market is losing altitude.
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Sales of new homes plunged by a record amount in 2007 while prices posted the weakest showing in 16 years, demonstrating the troubles builders are facing with a huge backlog of unsold homes.
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Sales of new U.S. homes again defied  predictions of a slowdown in May and rose 4.6 percent, but  median sales prices fell and the U.S. Northeast experienced its  slowest sales tempo in nearly two years, according to a  government report on Monday.
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The bigger-than-expected decline in existing home sales came amid continuing turmoil in mortgage markets.
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Sales of non-new houses in the US fell last month but still exceeded analyst forecasts.
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The number of new US homes sales fell by a greater-than-expected 2.1% in May, official data shows.
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New U.S. single-family home sales plummeted a record 26 percent in 2007 and builders slashed prices by the most since 1970 as they struggled to cope with a housing bust, a government report showed on Monday.
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The number of new US homes built in May fell by more than analysts forecast, official data shows.
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Sales of new homes fell more than expected in July, to their lowest pace since December, as higher mortgage rates cooled the housing market.
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The pace of sales of existing homes  in the United States fell 1.2 percent in May, roughly in line  with expectations, according to a report from the National  Association of Realtors said on Tuesday.
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New-home sales fell 34.4 percent from a year earlier, the biggest year-over-year drop since January 1991.
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May sales of new houses in the US disappoint after reaching record highs in April, as the housing slump continues.
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Sales of new homes dropped to the slowest pace in over seven years, foreshadowing further economic trouble ahead.
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Analysts say 12 percent decline points to a slowing in demand because of higher interest rates. By Courtney Schlisserman. US sales of new homes fell 12 percent in November, the sharpest decline in more than
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Sales of new homes plunged in August and prices posted their biggest year-on-year drop in nearly 37 years, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday, underlining the depth of problems facing the U.S. housing sector.
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Sales of existing U.S. homes fell  more than expected in July, as the housing market took a  breather from its record-toppling run, a trade association  report showed on Tuesday.