Sales of new single-family homes in the Northeast during April fell 5.6 percent to 17,000, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. March’s revised annual rate was 18,000. Nationally, new home sales were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 517,000, up 6.8 percent from March and 26.1 percent above the April 2014 total of 410,000.

Read the entire U.S. Commerce Department press release here.