{"id":383937,"date":"2026-07-23T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383937\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:24:06","slug":"new-home-sales-flat-in-june-as-pending-sales-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383937\/","title":{"rendered":"New-home sales flat in June as pending sales decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New-home sales in Houston were statistically flat in June as pending sales declined, according to the latest report from <a href=\"https:\/\/homesusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HomesUSA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buyers purchased 2,164 new homes in June, down from 2,169 in May and 2,297 in June 2025. Pending sales, meanwhile, declined 7.6% month over month and 20.5% year over year as buyers contracted on 1,791 properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouston builders continue to cope with the affordability issue,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2024\/05\/02\/ben-caballero-world-record-annual-home-sales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HomesUSA CEO Ben Caballero<\/a> said in a press release. \u201cPrices increased modestly, but lower sales and pending sales show that <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2026\/02\/26\/mortgage-rates-below-6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elevated mortgage rates<\/a> remain a significant obstacle. The interest rate drop builders hoped to see this spring did not happen and moderated the seasonal bounce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s average new-home price rose to $407,120, up from $398,646 in May and $399,175 a year prior.<\/p>\n<p>Active listings increased, although days on market improved on a monthly basis. Total active inventory increased 10.8% year over year, with 15,671 new homes on the market in June, but the average listing spent 102.87 days on market, down from 108.9 days in May. In June 2025, a typical new home took 92.69 days to sell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the improvement in days on market last month is encouraging, the decline in pending sales is also consistent with seasonality,\u201d Caballero explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New-home sales in Houston were statistically flat in June as pending sales declined, according to the latest report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13657,33837,33836,56,58,109952,57,50989,51001],"class_list":["post-383937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-ben-caballero","tag-homesusa","tag-homesusa-com","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-new-home-sales","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-real-estate","tag-sc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}