After a two-month rebound from January's plunge, new home sales disappointed in April, dropping 1.5% MoM to a SAAR of 662k (below the 680k expectation).

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Is the rebound over?

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While new home sales declined 1.5% MoM, they rose 11.6% YoY thanks to the insanely noisy time-series and various weather impacts.

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One interesting anomaly was that while the median new home sales price tumbled to the lowest since April 2017, the average new home sales price jumped to an all-time high.

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Which suggests the high-end is seeing all the gains as 50% of homes sold at a price that was 7% below last month.