{"id":32224,"date":"2016-02-24T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=32224"},"modified":"2016-02-24T15:11:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T21:11:45","slug":"dip-in-new-home-sales-merely-a-bump-in-markets-recovery-road-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/dip-in-new-home-sales-merely-a-bump-in-markets-recovery-road-economists\/","title":{"rendered":"Dip in new home sales merely a bump in market&#8217;s recovery road: economists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>By Steven Porter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\"><span class=\"s1\">New home sales fell short of expectations in January, but economists remain confident the housing market\u2019s recovery will continue bit by bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Single-family houses sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 494,000 last month, 9.2 percent below the 544,000 economists surveyed by Yahoo Finance had been expecting,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>according to a report<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Daniel Silver, an economist with JPMorgan Chase Bank, said the shortfall announcement shouldn\u2019t be seen as a bad omen.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe series on new home sales is often choppy, but through some of the noise in the data, it appears that home sales are continuing to trend higher over time off of historically low levels,\u201d Silver said in a prepared statement. \u201cWe maintain our view that the housing market will continue to recover.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\">New home sales since January 2015<\/h2>\n<p>[field name=&#8221;chart1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">The seasonally adjusted annual rate of new single-family home sales (in thousands) per month dipped in January 2016. (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce)<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Broken down by region, sales dropped modestly in the South and the Midwest, which saw decreases of 1.8 and 5.9 percent respectively. The Northeast, meanwhile, saw a sales increase of 3.4 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But the West, where new home sales were down 32.1 percent last month, dragged down the national average. Still, the announcement isn\u2019t a cause for alarm, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.comerica.com\/?utm_source=econ&amp;amp%253butm_medium=email&amp;amp%253butm_campaign=vanity-url-economics\"><span class=\"s2\">economists with Comerica Bank<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cA scan of California realtor news reveals nothing exceptional for the month,\u201d Comerica Chief Economist Robert Dye wrote Wednesday. \u201cSo we will view this as an anomaly for now, and expect new home sales to rebound next month.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nationwide, the median sales price of a new home was $278,800 in January, and the average was $365,700, according to the Census and HUD data released Wednesday. At the end of the last month, there was a seasonally adjusted estimate of 238,000 new houses for sale, representing a 5.8-month supply at the current sales rate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Separately, the Mortgage Bankers Association released survey data Wednesday indicating that applications for mortgages declined as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For the week ended Feb. 19, applications were down 4.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, compared to a week prior, according to the MBA data, which were adjusted to account for business missed on President\u2019s Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mortgages sought for purchases fell 2 percent, while mortgages sought for refinancing purposes fell 8 percent compared to the previous week, according to MBA\u2019s indices. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The share of mortgage activity sought for refinancing purposes decreased to 61 percent from 64 percent a week prior.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\">Mortgage applications by purpose (%)<\/h2>\n<p>[field name=&#8221;chart2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">The share of mortgage applications requested for refinancing declined about 3 percentage points in week ended Feb. 19, from the previous week. (Source: Mortgage Bankers Association)<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFollowing six straight weeks where rates declined a total of almost 40 basis points, rates ticked up slightly last week, causing some pull back in refinance activity,\u201d MBA Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni said in a prepared statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: New home sales fell below analyst expectations in January, according to data released Wednesday. 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