The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently reported that the sales of new single‐family homes was up in August 2022, assessed at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 685,000, which the report says is a 28.8% increase over July’s revised rate of 532,000.

Despite gains over July, the August 2022 sales estimate is down – 0.1% from same time last year, when the estimate for August (2021) was 686,000.

The median sales price of new homes sold in August 2022 was reported as being $436,800, while the average sales price was $521,800. The seasonally‐adjusted estimate of new homes for sale at the end of August was 461,000, which represents a supply of 8.1 months at the current sales rate.

By region, the Northeast went from 15,000 in July to 25,000 estimated sales in August—roughly a 66% increase from one month to the next—though the number of estimated Northeast sales is down almost 22% from August 2021. In the Midwest, estimated new home sales increased around 16% from July 2022, with 54,000 estimated sales, to August 2022’s (estimated) 63,000 sales. The Midwest is one of two regions where numbers improved from August 2021 as well, up 5% from the same month last year. The South’s estimated 467,000 sales were an improvement both over last month and last year, including a 29.4% increase over last month’s 361,000 and 10.4% over August 2021. Numbers from the West were more similar to the Northeast, with a significant increase—27.5%—from July to August 2022, but a decrease when compared to August 2021. The estimated 130,000 sales in the West were down 24% from the same time last year.

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