U.S. new home sales in the last two months of 2025 delivered a Christmas surprise for the housing market, with November reaching a near four-year high and December close behind.
A Census Bureau report issued on Feb. 20 indicates the November seasonally adjusted new single-family home sales nationwide saw a 15.5 percent increase from the previous month to an annual rate of 758,000 units, marking the highest level since February 2022, when the annual rate reached 788,000 units.
The Census Bureau data released on the same day show that an annual rate of 745,000 new single-family homes were sold in December, just a 1.7 percent decrease from November and firmly above market expectations of 730,000, representing the second-highest level during the period.
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