{
  "id": 15654500,
  "title": "New home sales are dropping fast",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/new-home-sales-are-dropping-fast",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-19T21:00:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/10/new-home-sales-are-dropping-fast/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Amidst an already challenging set of circumstances for the nation’s residential construction sector, the latest Housing Industry Association (HIA) home sales figures have provided another unwelcome reality check for the Albanese government’s “aspiration” to build 1.2 million new homes over its 5 year ‘Housing Accord’ period. At a national level in the September quarter, new The post New home…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}