2006 Third Best Sales Year
The National Association of REALTORS reports existing-home sales eased but prices stabilized as inventories tightened in December, while 2006 was the third-highest sales year on record.
Total existing-home sales Total existing-home sales including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops eased 0.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate1 of 6.22 million units in December from a level of 6.27 million in November. Sales were 7.9 percent lower than a 6.75 million-unit pace in December 2005.
There were 6,480,000 existing-home sales in all of 2006, down 8.4 percent from a record 7,075,000 in 2005. The second highest total was 6,779,000 in 2004; NAR began tracking home sales in 1968.