According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), existing home sales declined 4.9% over the month in January to a nine-month low of 4.82 million seasonally adjusted annualized units.

虽然30年抵押贷款的费率降至20个月的低点3.71%,但库存有限的库存已经对房价上涨了压力。

These rising prices, which have outpaced inflation, appear to have tempered sales. While home sales improved 3.2% from January 2014, last year’s sales were hindered by a deep freeze that caused home buying to stall, according to NAR.

Sales of previously owned single-family homes declined 5.1% over the month to 4.27 million units but rose 3.9% from the depressed levels of a year ago. Multifamily home re-sales (condos and co-ops) pulled back for the third straight month, dropping 3.5% to 550,000 units—the lowest level since August 2012. Sales also fell 1.8% compared to a year earlier.

对每个主要地区的国家模式也持有。在本月,房屋销售下降,西方最突破。销售额跌幅为7.1%至140万台的一年。一世

NAR reports that in the Northeast, sales tumbled 6.0% to 630,000. The national slowdown was more pronounced than in the South (-4.6%) and Midwest (-2.7%), however, where sales fell to 2.07 million and 1.08 million annualized units, respectively. Strong over-the-year gains in the South (+5.6%) and Northeast (+3.3%), helped boost national growth, while sales improved at more modest rates in the West (+1.0%) and Midwest (+0.9%).

2月底,商业部门报告说,1月份新的单户家庭销售额为0.2%,以季节性调整为481,000个单位。然而,12月的482,000个单位(年度)的步伐是自2008年6月以来最高的。1月份新的房屋销售额与一年前的天气抑郁的水平相比,收益率为5.3%。

今年1月的新房销售可能受到东北恶劣天气条件的阻碍。暴雪朱诺在本月底附近埋藏了这一地区,在本月底附近的三英尺处,在家庭列表和开放的房屋中造成放缓。
Sales in the region plunged 51.6% over the month to a record low. Sales in the West dipped 0.8% while sales in the Midwest surged 19.2%.

一世n the South, sales rose 2.2% to their highest level since May 2008. While cold weather froze sales across many regions in January 2014, Blizzard Juno still stifled year-over-year sales in the Northeast during January. New home sales in the region sank 50.0% over the year, the sharpest decline since June 2011.

同时,中西部(+ 21.6%),南部(+ 8.6%)和西部(+ 5.0%)的销售全部张贴了较前一年。

Existing home sales and new home sales commonly move in different directions. New home sales are based on when a contract is signed and a deposit accepted, while existing home sales are based on closings, which usually follow one to two months after a contract is signed. Moreover, new home sales are based on a smaller sample size and are subject to large revisions and greater volatility.