New Home Sales: Release Dates, Results & History
New Home Sales last printed 0.61M on Tue, Aug 25, 2026 against a 0.62M consensus forecast and a 0.63M prior, exactly on consensus. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
New home sales are counted at contract signing, not closing, so they react to mortgage-rate moves a month or two before existing sales do. That makes this the timelier housing demand signal despite huge revisions and wide confidence intervals. Builder incentives and rate buydowns show up here first.
The trend, at a glance
How it moves Treasuries
A beat is mildly bearish Treasuries; single prints get discounted because the series is noisy and heavily revised. Trend breaks matter, monthly wiggles don't. See it scored live on the Helious desk, or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
Recent prints, as captured by the desk
| DATE | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PRIOR | SURPRISE (SD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.61M | 0.62M | 0.63M | 0.00 | ON THE SCREWS | |
| 0.63M | 0.61M | 0.58M | 0.00 | ON THE SCREWS |
The 2 most recent prints from the desk's live capture (began July 2026), a sample. Every row links the print page published the moment the number landed; the full graded history is served by the API.
Official series history
| PERIOD | VALUE (M UNITS SAAR) | PRIOR | CHANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.61M | 0.68M | -0.07M | |
| 0.68M | 0.63M | +0.05M | |
| 0.63M | 0.64M | -0.01M | |
| 0.64M | 0.66M | -0.02M | |
| 0.66M | 0.63M | +0.03M | |
| 0.63M | 0.58M | +0.05M | |
| 0.58M | 0.72M | -0.15M | |
| 0.72M | 0.76M | -0.03M |
The most recent official rows; the chart above draws the longer series. Desk-captured prints above include the consensus forecast and standard-deviation surprise the moment each number landed.
Related indicators
Monthly, ~fourth week for the prior month · 10:00 AM ET · download a sample (CSV, recent rows), free to cite with a link to this page. The full history comes through the Helious API and MCP at api.helious.io/mcp, with depth set by plan.