New home sales fall 8.6% in March

istock.com/sturti WASHINGTON — Worsening affordability conditions stemming from growing supply chain disruptions and rising mortgage rates pushed new home sales lower in March. Sales of newly built, single-family homes in March fell 8.6% to a 763,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate from an upwardly revised reading in February, according to newly released data by the U.S….