United States Pending Home Sales 2002-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Contracts to buy previously owned homes in the United States fell 1.3 percent year-on-year in July of 2017, following a downwardly revised 0.3 percent increase in June. Compared to June, pending home sales shrank 0.8 percent, following a downwardly revised 1.3 percent gain and compared to market expectations of a 0.5 percent rise. Across main four regions, contracts fell in the Northeast (-0.3 percent), the Midwest (-0.7 percent) and the South (-1.7 percent) but rose in the West (0.6 percent). Pending Home Sales in the United States averaged 1.14 percent from 2002 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 30.90 percent in October of 2009 and a record low of -24.30 percent in April of 2011.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	TEForecast
2017-06-28	02:00 PM	Pending Home Sales YoY	-1.7%	-3.7%	2%
2017-07-31	02:00 PM	Pending Home Sales YoY	0.5%	-1.6%	-2.2%
2017-08-31	02:00 PM	Pending Home Sales YoY	-1.3%	0.3%	-1.8%
2017-09-27	02:00 PM	Pending Home Sales YoY		-1.3%	-1%
2017-10-26	02:00 PM	Pending Home Sales YoY			-1.9%
2017-11-29	03:00 PM	Pending Home Sales YoY			2.7%

United States Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Building Permits	1300.00	1230.00	2419.00	513.00	Thousand	[+]
Housing Starts	1180.00	1190.00	2494.00	478.00	Thousand	[+]
New Home Sales	571.00	630.00	1389.00	270.00	Thousand	[+]
Pending Home Sales	-1.30	0.30	30.90	-24.30	percent	[+]
Existing Home Sales	5350.00	5440.00	7250.00	1370.00	Thousand	[+]
Construction Spending	-0.60	-1.40	5.90	-4.80	percent	[+]
Housing Index	0.20	0.10	1.20	-1.80	percent	[+]
Nahb Housing Market Index	64.00	67.00	78.00	8.00		[+]
Mortgage Rate	4.04	4.03	10.56	3.47	percent	[+]
Mortgage Applications	-9.70	9.90	49.10	-38.80	percent	[+]
Home Ownership Rate	63.70	63.60	69.20	62.90	percent	[+]
Case Shiller Home Price Index	200.54	199.05	206.52	100.00	Index Points	[+]

United States Pending Home Sales

Pending Home Sales Index is based on sales of existing homes where the contract has been signed but the transaction has not been closed. The index is based on a large national sample, typically representing about 20 percent of transactions for existing-home sales. An index of 100 is equal to the average level of contract activity during 2001, which was the first year to be examined. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Pending Home Sales - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Pending Home Sales - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2017.