December 2022 US Housing Market Indicators: Pending, Existing and New Home Sales All Decline as Affordability Gap Widens

What's Inside

The Coresight Research monthly US Housing Market Indicators report analyzes 10 indicators to assess the health of the US housing market, with implications for home and home-improvement retailers. The most recent data show that all home sales continue to decline while affordability drops.

Data in this report include:

• US housing permits, starts and completions for November 2021–November 2022
• US existing home sales for November 2021–November 2022
• US pending home sales index for November 2021–November 2022, overall and by region
• US new home sales and year-over-year change for November 2021–November 2022
• US housing affordability index for October 2021–October 2022

Other relevant research:

• The previous Housing Market Indicators report for November 2022
• Market Outlook: US Home-Improvement Retailing—Personalization and the Resurrection of In-Store Retail
• Read our complete coverage of the home and home-improvement sector.
• View our full collection of monthly reports that keep you up to date on retail sales (in total and by sector) and key consumer indicators, focusing on the US, the UK and China