Pending Home Sales Tumble, Unchanged Since June 2013

After modest bounces in existing and new home sales (despite weakness in starts and permits and mortgage application declines), pending home sales in May tumbled 0.8% MoM and were revised even lower (-1.7%) in April. This dismal print was below all economists’ expectations, missing by 4 standard deviations.
This is the 3rd straight monthly drop and 2nd straight annual decline in pending home sales.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 28, 2017.