1.   Soft land prices have helped boost new home sales.

2.   Stagnation in home sales is holding back economic recovery.

3.   There has been a precipitous decline in home sales recently.

4.   Home sales provide a useful way of gauging the overall state of the economy.

5.   Alternatively where the level of the CET was higher than pre-existing national tariffs thus stimulating a rise in home sales, this is termed trade suppression.

6.   The Group says, production, home sales and exports have all been outstanding for Austin Rover and Landrover vehicles.

7.   Also Friday, the Commerce Department reports on new home sales during August.

8.   Among individual stocks, timber companies were hurt by the drop in home sales.

9.   An October slump in home sales eased concern that a rebounding economy could quicken inflation.

10.   An unexpected rise in new home sales last month was offset by a revision to May sales, the government reported.