A downward trend in total new home sales has emerged, affirming previous calls that sales had reached a peak earlier in 2014. The 2013/14 financial year saw the recovery in new home sales gather strong momentum. The 2014/15 financial year, however, has started with the emergence of a downward trend, suggesting that monthly new home sales peaked back in April.
Total seasonally adjusted new home sales fell by 5.7 per cent in the month of July 2014, a result reflected in both detached house as well as multi-unit sales. Detached house sales declined by 4.7 per cent, while multi-unit sales fell by 10.9 per cent in the month of July. Over the three months to July aggregate new home sales declined by 3.5 per cent.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
