By Jonathan Smoke | realtor.com
With the latest numbers on existing- and new-home sales from the National Association of Realtors®, we can now close the books on 2015. And quite a year it’s been! As we’d expected, 2015 produced major growth and some big-time milestones in housing’s recovery.
How good was it? Total home sales grew 7% over 2014 for the best year since 2007, based on 6% growth in existing-home sales and 15% growth in new-home sales. The increase in 2015 was a stark contrast to the decline in total sales in 2014.