New-Home Sales Reverse Course in May

New-home sales reversed course in May, with sales of new, single-family homes up 2.9 percent to 610,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The average new-home sales price was $406,400, while the median was $345,800. New-home listing inventory was 268,000—5.3 months supply.
“We are seeing solid growth in new-home sales this year,” said Granger MacDonald, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), in