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5/25/2021 10:16:00 AM The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in April were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 863 thousand. The previous three months were revised down sharply, combined. Sales of new single‐family houses in April 2021 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 863,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 5.9 percent below the revised March rate of 917,000, but i...

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Note: Expect a dip in the data over the holidays. The week-over-week growth in positive cases has slowed.  Hopefully that continues. Im looking forward to not posting this data in a few months. Please stay healthy! The US is now averaging close to 2 million tests per day. Based on the experience of other countries, for adequate test-and-trace (and isolation) to reduce infections, the percent positive needs to be under 5% (probably close to 1%), so the US has far too many daily cases - and...

12/23/2020 10:14:00 AM The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 841 thousand. The previous three months were revised down sharply. Sales of new single-family houses in November 2020 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 841,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 11.0 percent below the revised October rate of 945,000, but is ...