Existing Home Sales in the United States increased to 4030 Thousand in May from 4000 Thousand in April of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Existing Home Sales - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

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New Home Sales in the United States decreased to 623 Thousand units in May from 722 Thousand units in April of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States New Home Sales - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The number of U.S. home sales in the United States declined in 2024, after soaring in 2021. A total of four million transactions of existing homes, including single-family, condo, and co-ops, were completed in 2024, down from 6.12 million in 2021. According to the forecast, the housing market is forecast to head for recovery in 2025, despite transaction volumes expected to remain below the long-term average. Why have home sales declined? The housing boom during the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that being a homeowner is still an integral part of the American dream. Nevertheless, sentiment declined in the second half of 2022 and Americans across all generations agreed that the time was not right to buy a home. A combination of factors has led to house prices rocketing and making homeownership unaffordable for the average buyer. A survey among owners and renters found that the high home prices and unfavorable economic conditions were the two main barriers to making a home purchase. People who would like to purchase their own home need to save up a deposit, have a good credit score, and a steady and sufficient income to be approved for a mortgage. In 2022, mortgage rates experienced the most aggressive increase in history, making the total cost of homeownership substantially higher. Are U.S. home prices expected to fall? The median sales price of existing homes stood at 413,000 U.S. dollars in 2024 and was forecast to increase slightly until 2026. The development of the S&P/Case Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index shows that home prices experienced seven consecutive months of decline between June 2022 and January 2023, but this trend reversed in the following months. Despite mild fluctuations throughout the year, home prices in many metros are forecast to continue to grow, albeit at a much slower rate.

The number of home sales in the United States peaked in 2021 at almost ************* after steadily rising since 2018. Nevertheless, the market contracted in the following year, with transaction volumes falling to ***********. Home sales remained muted in 2024, with a mild increase expected in 2025 and 2026. A major factor driving this trend is the unprecedented increase in mortgage interest rates due to high inflation. How have U.S. home prices developed over time? The average sales price of new homes has also been rising since 2011. Buyer confidence seems to have recovered after the property crash, which has increased demand for homes and also the prices sellers are demanding for homes. At the same time, the affordability of U.S. homes has decreased. Both the number of existing and newly built homes sold has declined since the housing market boom during the coronavirus pandemic. Challenges in housing supply The number of housing units in the U.S. rose steadily between 1975 and 2005 but has remained fairly stable since then. Construction increased notably in the 1990s and early 2000s, with the number of construction starts steadily rising, before plummeting amid the infamous housing market crash. Housing starts slowly started to pick up in 2011, mirroring the economic recovery. In 2022, the supply of newly built homes plummeted again, as supply chain challenges following the COVID-19 pandemic and tariffs on essential construction materials such as steel and lumber led to prices soaring.

Monthly single-family home sales in Connecticut, 2001 through the present. Data updated monthly by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority and tracked in the following dashboard: https://www.chfa.org/about-us/ct-monthly-housing-market-dashboard/. CHFA has stopped maintaining the dashboard and associated datasets, and this dataset will no longer be updated as of 2022.

The number of pending home sales in the U.S. declined dramatically in the fourth quarter of 2021. In March 2024, the pending home sales index stood at **** index points, just *** index points above its lowest value recorded in April 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The slowdown in buying activity was triggered by the aggressive mortgage interest rates hikes in response to the rising inflation. As it takes around **** to eight weeks to finalize a home sale in the United States, the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) index is seen as a measure of consumer sentiment on buying a house and essentially provides an early outlook on what the actual sales of existing homes in the country might potentially look like.

In March 2025, the existing home sales index in Tokyo Prefecture in Japan stood at ***** index points. This was above the nationwide sales index for second-hand properties in Japan.The existing home sales index measures the development of the second-hand housing market based on the number of ownership transfers due to the sale and purchase of buildings. It includes data for detached houses and condominiums.

Single Family Home Prices in the United States increased to 422800 USD in May from 414000 USD in April of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Existing Single Family Home Prices- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

United States Existing Home Sales: Months Supply data was reported at 4.400 Month in Sep 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 4.300 Month for Aug 2018. United States Existing Home Sales: Months Supply data is updated monthly, averaging 4.900 Month from Jan 1999 (Median) to Sep 2018, with 237 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.400 Month in Jul 2010 and a record low of 3.200 Month in Dec 2017. United States Existing Home Sales: Months Supply data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Association of Realtors. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.EB005: Existing Home Sales.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of house sales in the UK spiked, followed by a period of decline. In 2023 and 2024, the housing market slowed notably, and in January 2025, transaction volumes fell to 46,774. House sales volumes are impacted by a number of factors, including mortgage rates, house prices, supply, demand, as well as the overall health of the market. The economic uncertainty and rising unemployment rates has also affected the homebuyer sentiment of Brits. How have UK house prices developed over the past 10 years? House prices in the UK have increased year-on-year since 2015, except for a brief period of decline in the second half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024. That is based on the 12-month percentage change of the UK house price index. At the peak of the housing boom in 2022, prices soared by nearly 14 percent. The decline that followed was mild, at under three percent. The cooling in the market was more pronounced in England and Wales, where the average house price declined in 2023. Conversely, growth in Scotland and Northern Ireland continued. What is the impact of mortgage rates on house sales? For a long period, mortgage rates were at record-low, allowing prospective homebuyers to take out a 10-year loan at a mortgage rate of less than three percent. In the last quarter of 2021, this period came to an end as the Bank of England rose the bank lending rate to contain the spike in inflation. Naturally, the higher borrowing costs affected consumer sentiment, urging many homebuyers to place their plans on hold and leading to a decline in sales.

United States New 1 Family Houses Sold: sa: Month Supply at Current Sales Rate data was reported at 7.400 Month in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 6.500 Month for Sep 2018. United States New 1 Family Houses Sold: sa: Month Supply at Current Sales Rate data is updated monthly, averaging 5.800 Month from Jan 1963 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 670 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.200 Month in Jan 2009 and a record low of 3.500 Month in Aug 2003. United States New 1 Family Houses Sold: sa: Month Supply at Current Sales Rate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by US Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB001: New One Family House Unit: Sold and For Sale.

United States - Existing Home Sales: Months Supply was 4.40000 Months' Supply in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Existing Home Sales: Months Supply reached a record high of 5.70000 in July of 2014 and a record low of 1.60000 in January of 2022. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Existing Home Sales: Months Supply - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

The quarterly number of single family-home sales in Florida reached ****** in the first quarter of 2024. This was an increase over the previous quarter but below the first quarter in 2023. The value of single-family homes transactions in Florida followed a similar trend in this period.

As the U.S. housing market slowed, the proportion of properties sold above the list price declined slightly from the 2022 peak. A record high share of homes sold for more than the list price in May 2022, as bidding wars broke out among homebuyers. This trend developed as the real estate market witnessed an uptick in sales during 2020 - as can be seen in an index for pending home sales during the COVID-19 pandemic - alongside growing issues on the supply end. Home inventory in several U.S. cities, for instance, amid growing shortages of building materials. In September 2024, the share of homes sold above the list price amounted to 28 percent.

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United States Existing Home Sales: US data was reported at 420,000.000 Unit in Sep 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 539,000.000 Unit for Aug 2018. United States Existing Home Sales: US data is updated monthly, averaging 436,000.000 Unit from Jan 1999 (Median) to Sep 2018, with 237 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 753,000.000 Unit in Jun 2005 and a record low of 218,000.000 Unit in Jan 2009. United States Existing Home Sales: US data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Association of Realtors. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.EB005: Existing Home Sales.

From January to May 2025, the cumulative sales revenue of commercialized real estate in China amounted to around *** trillion yuan. This was a decline by *** percent from the same period in the previous year. Annual total sales revenue of real estate in China reached around **** trillion yuan in 2024.

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