Existing home sales - down; pending home sales - down; affordability (as rates spike) - down; new home sales - up at 7-month highs (beating all but one of 70 economists' estimates)
New Home Sales SAAR in Feb printed 592k (beating expectations of 564k by 3 standard deviations)...
(Click on image to enlarge)

Weather played a big role by the look of it...
Northeast sales tumbled 21.4% MoM as Midwest soared 30.9% MoM!
And home prices appeared to tumble to the lowest since July.
(Click on image to enlarge)

This is the biggest two-month median home p4ice drop since 1970...
(Click on image to enlarge)

Spot the odd one out...
(Click on image to enlarge)

Choose your own narrative.




Comments
Log in or sign up to join the conversation.