According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), existing home sales declined 4.9% over the month in January to a nine-month low of 4.82 million seasonally adjusted annualized units.

虽然30年抵押贷款的利率下降到20个月低点3.71％，但有限的库存却给房价带来了上涨。

These rising prices, which have outpaced inflation, appear to have tempered sales. While home sales improved 3.2% from January 2014, last year’s sales were hindered by a deep freeze that caused home buying to stall, according to NAR.

Sales of previously owned single-family homes declined 5.1% over the month to 4.27 million units but rose 3.9% from the depressed levels of a year ago. Multifamily home re-sales (condos and co-ops) pulled back for the third straight month, dropping 3.5% to 550,000 units—the lowest level since August 2012. Sales also fell 1.8% compared to a year earlier.

也为每个主要地区提供的国家模式。在整个月中，房屋销售下降，西部受到最大打击。销售额下跌7.1％，至104万辆的一年低点。我

NAR reports that in the Northeast, sales tumbled 6.0% to 630,000. The national slowdown was more pronounced than in the South (-4.6%) and Midwest (-2.7%), however, where sales fell to 2.07 million and 1.08 million annualized units, respectively. Strong over-the-year gains in the South (+5.6%) and Northeast (+3.3%), helped boost national growth, while sales improved at more modest rates in the West (+1.0%) and Midwest (+0.9%).

2月下旬，商业部报告称，新的单户住宅销售在1月下降了0.2％，季节性调整后的年率为481,000辆。然而，12月的482,000辆（年度化）的速度是2008年6月以来最高的。与一年前的天气抑郁水平相比，1月的新房屋销售额可赚取5.3％。

东北地区的恶劣天气条件可能阻碍了今年一月的新房屋销售。暴雪朱诺（Juno）在本月底附近将该地区埋葬了多达三英尺的雪，导致房屋清单和开放式房屋的放缓。
Sales in the region plunged 51.6% over the month to a record low. Sales in the West dipped 0.8% while sales in the Midwest surged 19.2%.

我n the South, sales rose 2.2% to their highest level since May 2008. While cold weather froze sales across many regions in January 2014, Blizzard Juno still stifled year-over-year sales in the Northeast during January. New home sales in the region sank 50.0% over the year, the sharpest decline since June 2011.

同时，中西部（+21.6％），南部（+8.6％）和西方（+5.0％）的销售额与去年同期相比，全部均可赚取稳定的收益。

Existing home sales and new home sales commonly move in different directions. New home sales are based on when a contract is signed and a deposit accepted, while existing home sales are based on closings, which usually follow one to two months after a contract is signed. Moreover, new home sales are based on a smaller sample size and are subject to large revisions and greater volatility.