Pending home sales declined again in November

Pending home sales

Pending home sales By Reuters

Contracts to buy previously owned homes fell in November for the third time in four months, a signal that growth in the housing market could be cooling. The National Association of Realtors said on Wednesday that its pending home sales index slipped 0.9 percent to 106.9.

The group added that the index had risen slightly more in October than initially estimated. Pending home contracts become sales after a month or two, and the declines in recent months could point to slower growth in home-buying in 2016. Mortgage rates have only inched higher since the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by a quarter point on Dec. 16, but Fed policy makers expect to continue the increases next year.

Pending home sales had been posting strong gains earlier in the year and were still up 2.7 percent from a year ago. But contracts fell 3 percent in the Northeast in November from a month earlier and were down 5.5 percent in the West. They rose 1.3 percent in the South and gained 1.0 percent in the Midwest.

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