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New Home Sales Plunge 11% In January

• businessinsider.com/ & CalculatedRiskblog.com
 
This is 11.2 percent (±14.0%)* below the revised December rate of 348,000 and is 6.1 percent (±15.1%)* below the January 2009 estimate of 329,000. The median sales price of new houses sold in January 2010 was $203,500; the average sales price was $254,500. The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of January was 234,000. This represents a supply of 9.1 months at the current sales rate. Analysts had been looking for 325,000, so this is a solid miss.

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