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Friday, April 23, 2010

US New Home Sales Surge 27%, Blowing Past Estimates

Sales of new homes surged 27 percent last month, bouncing off the previous month's record low and blowing past expectations as better weather and government incentives boosted sales.


AP
New home sales rose 26.9 percent in March.
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The Commerce Department said new home sales rose in March to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 411,000.
It was the strongest month since last July and the biggest monthly increase in 47 years.
Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected a sales pace of 330,000.
February's results were revised upward to 324,000, but remained an all-time low. Sales had been especially weak over the winter, partly due to bad weather in much of the country.


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