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New Home Sales Drop 12.4% To Record Low

08/25/2010 11:45 am 0 comments

Source: Hibah Yousuf / CNN Money

New York – New home sales unexpectedly fell in July to the lowest level on record as the housing market continued to suffer from the end of the homebuyer tax credit boost.

New home sales dropped 12.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 276,000 last month, down from a downwardly revised 315,000 in June, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Sales year-over-year fell 32.4%.

“The report shows the housing industry is still nursing a bad hangover,” said Mitchell Hochberg of Madden Real Estate Ventures in New York. “With shadow inventory, rising foreclosures, little job growth and more stringent access to credit, weak sales will persist and the industry’s headache will linger.”

On Tuesday, a real estate industry report showed that existing home sales sank 27.2% in July, twice as much as analysts expected, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million units. The pace of sales of single family homes, which account for a bulk of the transactions, fell to the lowest level since May 1995.

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