Existing Home Sales
Existing home sales measure completed U.S. transactions for previously owned homes; analysts compare sales pace, inventory, prices, regions, and months' supply.
Sales, starts, ownership, and mortgage-application data used to read housing-market conditions.
Home Sales, Starts, and Ownership Data covers home sales, housing starts, ownership data, house-price indexes, repeat-sales methods, housing cycles, and property-market indicators.
Use these pages when housing data affects collateral assumptions, mortgage demand, borrower behavior, real-estate valuation, or market-cycle analysis. It sits inside Housing Market Data and Indexes, so readers can move up when the broader property-finance context matters.
Use the table below to choose the narrower mortgage or real-estate finance branch before applying a term to a loan file, closing record, servicing review, investor report, appraisal, or valuation model. Move into the term page when the document, calculation, party role, lien position, or property cash flow matters.
| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Existing Home Sales | Completed transactions for previously owned U.S. homes, analyzed with inventory, months’ supply, property type, region, and median prices. |
| Homeownership Rate | Share of occupied housing units that are owner-occupied, interpreted with the correct denominator, survey, geography, and margin of error. |
| Housing Starts | Estimated new privately owned housing units beginning construction, reported by structure type and commonly at a seasonally adjusted annual rate. |
| New Home Sales | Contracts or deposits for qualifying new single-family houses, analyzed with inventory, construction stage, prices, and months’ supply. |
| Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey | MBA indexes tracking covered purchase, refinance, government, conventional, fixed-rate, and adjustable-rate mortgage application activity. |
Housing-market data content is educational and does not provide appraisal, lending, investment, legal, or tax advice.
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Existing home sales measure completed U.S. transactions for previously owned homes; analysts compare sales pace, inventory, prices, regions, and months' supply.
The homeownership rate is the share of occupied housing units that are owner-occupied; interpretation requires the correct denominator, survey, and margin of error.
Housing starts estimate new privately owned residential units beginning construction; analysts compare permits, completions, revisions, and sampling error.
New home sales estimate contracts and deposits for new single-family houses; the report also covers inventory, construction stage, prices, and months' supply.
The MBA Weekly Applications Survey tracks U.S. mortgage application activity through purchase, refinance, market, loan-type, product, rate, and composition measures.