New Home Sales: release dates, results and history
New Home Sales last printed 0.68M on Thu, Sep 24, 2026 against a 0.62M consensus forecast and a 0.61M prior, a +1.5 standard-deviation surprise. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
A new home sale goes on the books the day the contract is signed, not the day it closes. That gap is the whole point. It picks up a shift in mortgage rates a month or two before existing sales notice, which makes it the timelier read on housing demand, and builder incentives and rate buydowns turn up here first as well. You pay for that timeliness with ugly data. The revisions are huge and the confidence intervals are wide.
The trend
How it moves Treasuries
A beat is mildly bearish Treasuries. The market plays down any single print, because the series is noisy and gets revised hard. What counts is a break in the trend, not a wiggle from one month to the next. 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) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.68M | 0.62M | 0.61M | +1.50 | ABOVE FORECAST | |
| 0.61M | 0.62M | 0.63M | 0.00 | ON THE SCREWS | |
| 0.63M | 0.61M | 0.58M | 0.00 | ON THE SCREWS |
The 3 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the API.
Official series history
| PERIOD | VALUE (M UNITS SAAR) | PRIOR | CHANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.68M | 0.64M | +0.04M | |
| 0.64M | 0.67M | -0.03M | |
| 0.67M | 0.64M | +0.04M | |
| 0.64M | 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 |
These are the most recent official rows, and the chart above draws the longer series behind them. The desk-captured prints higher up the page carry the consensus forecast and the standard-deviation surprise as they stood the moment each number landed.
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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.