The drop in new home sales in August was smaller than expected, and comes on the back of an upwardly revised surge in sales in July. That has kept market conditions tight, which will weigh on activity in the short term. But it shouldn’t take long for homebuilding activity to resume its upward trend, enabling new home sales to make steady gains over the next couple of years.
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