This document is an historical supplement to the current data issued in the C25 Series of Construction Reports: "Sales of-New One-Family Homes." It is a joint publication of the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce and the. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The joint study of the sales of new one-family homes was undertaken in 1962! Among the individual subjects examined are the number of new one·family homes sold, the number for sale at specified points in time, the types of financing used in the sale of the home, the sales price (including the price of the site), and related subjects such as· the amount of downpayment agreed upon, the number of square feet of floor area, the number of bathrooms, the number of bedrooms, the number of stories, the type of foundation, the type of parking facility, the inclusion or exclusion of appliances or central air'conditioning in the sales price, and the type of heating fuel used.

This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.