New Home Sales Rise Sharply in June
From The Financial Times:
New US home sales surge in June
By Alan Rappeport in New York
Financial Times
Published: July 27 2009 15:57 | Last updated: July 27 2009 19:24
New house sales in the US jumped by 11 per cent in June, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that the market has bottomed out after being savaged for three years.
There are increasing signs that the combined impact of falling prices and low mortgage rates, along with aggressive government incentives, is driving people back to the market and stirring sales.
The monthly rise was the sharpest in nearly nine years, far exceeding economists’ expectations, and followed a revised increase of 2.4 per cent in the previous month. House sales rose to an adjusted annual rate of 384,000, the department of commerce said.
“[This is] more evidence that a bottom is forming in the housing market, with new home sales confirming the signal provided by other housing data,” said Alan Ruskin, a strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital.
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Anonymous says:
July 29, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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Anonymous says:
September 22, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Then you’ll be happy to know it just went bankrupt and is now in receivorship. I think First Financial bought it?