New-Home Sales Surge in October

New-home sales rose in October, with sales of new, single-family homes up 18.7 percent to 685,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The average new-home sales price was $400,200, while the median was $312,800. New-home listing inventory was 312,800—4.9 months supply.
“In the strongest year-over-year growth we’ve seen since 2017’s first quarter, increasing sales in all four regions drove U.S. new home sales up s