Sales of New Homes Up in October• Nationwide sales of new single-family homes rose 1.3% in October

to an annual rate of 307,000, the government reported Monday.• September sales were revised down to 303,000 from an original

reading of 313,000, according to data from the Census Bureau and Housing Department.

• Economists had expected U.S. new home sales to climb to an annual rate of 320,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis.

• The median sales price fell $1,000 to $212,300. • The supply of new homes on the market dropped slightly to 6.3

months.• Sales of new homes are 8.9% higher compared to one year ago.• In Houston, October new single-family home sales tracked in the

MLS totaled 639, up 2.0% from October 2010.• The median sales price of new single-family homes in Houston rose

11.5% year-over-year in October to $229,660.

Annual HAR Award Winners to be Honored at REALTOR® Celebration

• HAR is thrilled to announce that Tiffany Curry with Prudential Gary Greene, REALTORS® has been named 2011 REALTOR® of the Year and Cindy Hamann with Coldwell Banker United, REALTORS® is recipient of the 2011 John E. Wolf Citizenship Cup Award.

• Both will be honored during HAR’s annual REALTOR® Celebration on Wednesday, December 14, at the Houston Country Club.

• The event also features the installation of 2012 HAR Chairman Wayne Stroman and the Board of Directors.

• REALTOR® Celebration activities begin at 5:30 p.m. with a networking reception.

• For more information and to register for this exciting event, please visit www.har.com/realtorcelebration.

Appointments in MLS•This is a new way agents can request showing appointments for your listings. •A link is being added to the Office Information Section of the Agent Full Report that allows agents to request a showing appointment for that listing. •Showing agents will still need to receive confirmation of the appointment from Centralized Showing Service or the listing agent prior to showing the property. •Showing requests for listings registered with Centralized Showing Service will automatically be directed to the Centralized Showing Service online appointment scheduling system for processing and confirmation.•If an appointment is requested on a listing that belongs to a broker that uses HAR's Appointment Manager, a form will be sent to the e-mail address designated by that broker. •Once the appointment request has been received via email, the appointment request will need to be entered into the Appointment Manager system. •For more information, please visit www.har.com/appointments.

HAR Tool of the Week

Weekly HAR Market StatWith 2012 just around the corner, the most recent data show buyers continued to exceed their November 2010 purchase volumes. Sellers weren't so keen, posting fewer newly-listed properties in the MLS than at this time last year. With roughly 87.5 percent of 2011 data in the books, the clever observers will start snapping sneak peeks of annual statistics and watch YTD numbers a bit closer than usual.

In the Houston region, for the week ending November 20: • New Listings decreased 8.8% to 1,684

• Pending Sales increased 24.5% to 1,172 • Closed Sales decreased 4.4% to 1,010

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