The spike in mortgage rates to 7.3% in April caused a sizeable drop in new home sales, as buyers decided to wait for a chance of getting a lower rate. We think this will partly reverse in May as mortgage rates have since fallen back to 7%, therefore we don’t feel the need to abandon our above-consensus new home sales forecast just yet.
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