Tuesday’s housing reports paints a picture of a housing market that may slowly be gaining some balance.
Home prices aren’t going up as fast as they were a year ago, when talking heads were buzzing about a potential bubble. And sales of new homes, which have struggled to increase from relatively low levels of a year ago, posted huge gains in May, according to the Commerce Department.
Here are five takeaways:
1. If the May figure of 504,000 sales at a seasonally adjusted annual rate isn’t revised down, this would put sales of new homes at their highest levels in six years.
via Five Takeaways: Where is the U.S. Housing Market Headed? – Real Time Economics – WSJ.