The report on May new home sales, released this morning, paints a much brighter picture than last month's release of April data. In that report, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said new home sales had dropped 11.4 percent from their March level, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 569,000 units. Today that rate was revised up to 593,000. May sales improved on that report. They were up by 2.9 percent from April to a seasonally adjusted estimate of 610,000, cracking the 600,000 mark for only the fourth time since the housing crisis began. Sales are now 8.9 percent higher than in May 2016 when the estimate was 560,000. On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, sales in May were 1,000 units higher than in April, at 58,000. May's annual rate of sales was
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