Another strong rise in new home sales in August, to a 14-year high, pushed the months’ supply of homes to its lowest since records began in 1963. With housing starts constrained by surging lumber prices and lot shortages, that will soon put a halt to the upward trend in sales. We expect sales will edge back over the remainder of the year, to around 950,000 annualised.
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