Press release: “Sales of new one-family houses in December 2007 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 604,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 4.7 percent (±12.1%) below the revised November rate of 634,000 and is 40.7 percent (±7.8%) below the December 2006 estimate of 1,019,000.”