New Home Sales Weaken in August on Higher Mortgage Rates

Sales of newly built, single-family homes in August fell 8.7% to a 675,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate from an upwardly revised reading in July, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. The pace of new home sales in August was up 5.8% from a year ago.

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