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  • U.S. New Home Sales Unexpectedly Surge 11 Percent in April

    Email Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter April new home sales was an anomaly say U.S. homebuilders New home sales in the U.S. posted a surprising gain in April 2025, defying persistent economic headwinds, elevated interest rates, and rising construction costs. According to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department…

  • U.S. New Home Sales Unexpectedly Surge 11 Percent in April

    Email Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter April new home sales was an anomaly say U.S. homebuilders New home sales in the U.S. posted a surprising gain in April 2025, defying persistent economic headwinds, elevated interest rates, and rising construction costs. According to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department…

  • U.S. New Home Sales Unexpectedly Surge 11 Percent in April

    Email Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter April new home sales was an anomaly say U.S. homebuilders New home sales in the U.S. posted a surprising gain in April 2025, defying persistent economic headwinds, elevated interest rates, and rising construction costs. According to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department…

  • Home builders are struggling to add new homes amidst tariffs and economic uncertainty

    SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The economic uncertainties in the U.S. make it a challenging time for homebuilders, and that’s discouraging in a country that needs more housing and where the ability to afford a house is out of reach for many. Laurel Wamsley covers housing for NPR and joins us now. Laurel, thanks so much for…

  • U.S. New Home Sales Unexpectedly Surge 11 Percent in April

    Email Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter April new home sales was an anomaly say U.S. homebuilders New home sales in the U.S. posted a surprising gain in April 2025, defying persistent economic headwinds, elevated interest rates, and rising construction costs. According to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department…

  • 'We're in a holding pattern': Home sales and building slump in the face of uncertainty

    Economic uncertainty has produced a double whammy for the housing market: sluggish home sales and plodding construction. Last month was the slowest April for existing home sales in 16 years — a sharp rebuke to hopes that this spring the housing market would recover after two very sleepy years. In a May survey of builder…

  • U.S. New Home Sales Unexpectedly Surge 11 Percent in April

    Email Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter April new home sales was an anomaly say U.S. homebuilders New home sales in the U.S. posted a surprising gain in April 2025, defying persistent economic headwinds, elevated interest rates, and rising construction costs. According to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department…

  • Home builders are struggling to add new homes amidst tariffs and economic uncertainty

    SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The economic uncertainties in the U.S. make it a challenging time for homebuilders, and that’s discouraging in a country that needs more housing and where the ability to afford a house is out of reach for many. Laurel Wamsley covers housing for NPR and joins us now. Laurel, thanks so much for…

  • Home builders are struggling to add new homes amidst tariffs and economic uncertainty

    SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The economic uncertainties in the U.S. make it a challenging time for homebuilders, and that’s discouraging in a country that needs more housing and where the ability to afford a house is out of reach for many. Laurel Wamsley covers housing for NPR and joins us now. Laurel, thanks so much for…

  • 'We're in a holding pattern': Home sales and building slump in the face of uncertainty

    Economic uncertainty has produced a double whammy for the housing market: sluggish home sales and plodding construction. Last month was the slowest April for existing home sales in 16 years — a sharp rebuke to hopes that this spring the housing market would recover after two very sleepy years. In a May survey of builder…