The number of affordable homes was down, but there was a rise in newly-built council houses.
The Commerce Department said that the average price of newly-built homes rose slightly, which may have contributed to December's fall.
"We are introducing these measures to help sustain confidence in the market for newly-built properties, " said CML director general Michael Coogan.
Chairman of Braunton Parish Council Liz Spear said newly-built flood defences were overwhelmed by the volume of water that hit the town.
The planned departure of a newly-built warship from its yard on the River Clyde in Glasgow has been delayed by "a technical issue".
From 1 September, builders and developers of newly-built and converted properties will have to fill out a form which ensures all incentives are disclosed.
In Ruthin, an independent investigation is continuing into why the newly-built Glasdir estate was badly hit, forcing residents into temporary accommodation while properties dried out.
The jump in sales of newly-built homes is of particular note, as housing construction has typically played a lead role in past US economic recoveries.
Instead of simply naming Melbourne or Sydney as the major political centre, an agreement of a newly-built city equidistant between the two was the compromise.
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It is still standing, but obscured by newly-built shophouses and even a mall, which rob the design of the impact it made when open space surrounded it.
FirstBuy is aimed at first-time buyers, with the Homebuy Agency and house builders offering a 20% equity loan to help people searching for their first home buy a newly-built property.
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Described as the first newly-built theatre complex in central London in 30 years, St James includes a 312-seat main house and a studio space capable of accommodating up to 150 people.
As sellers grow increasingly desperate to unload their properties and get on with their lives, they continue to reduce their asking prices even as newly-built homes push up real estate prices in the aggregate.
It was hoped by cutting the traffic down people living in the newly-built Charlton Hayes development - to the south of Highwood Lane - could share amenities with people in Patchway to the north.
In April 2011, defence officials decided to move him from a Marine Corps prison in Virginia to a newly built pre-trial military jail at Fort Leavenworth in the Mid-western US state of Kansas.
Dozens of spacious, two-story houses newly built for visiting dignitaries sit on lush, green grass surrounded by palm trees.
The school was a newly built red brick one-story structure with four wings.
The prospect of an interest free loan covering 20% of the cost of a 'newly built home' - as the chancellor described it - could stimulate house building and provide far more starter homes.
My parents were outgoing, hospitable people, their friends culled from among my father's associates at the office and from the women who along with my mother had helped to organize the Parent-Teacher Association at newly built Chancellor Avenue School, where my brother and I were pupils.
Other ideas will be hatched in newly built incubators, including the Monsanto-backed Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise and the Donald Danforth Plant Center, opening in 2000.
Like the newly-rich stars of football who followed him, he built a statelyish house.
The National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday that average prices of newly built homes in 52 of 70 large and medium-size Chinese cities it surveyed fell in December on a sequential basis, up from 49 cities in November.
It's now only four and a half hours from Hefei to Shanghai on the newly built highway and less than three by the new high-speed rail link.
Connected to the hotel by a newly built bridge and VIP lounge in between, the full-scale tent staged a few big performers, such as Pit Bull and Stevie Wonder.
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The revamped museum, which includes a newly built pavilion surrounded by water, promises to bring the institution - which first opened in 1885 - "completely in step with the 21st century", while restoring Pierre Cuypers' original design.
This month trains will start running on Ferronorte, a newly built railway linking Alto Taquari, in the state's south-eastern corner, with an existing line to the port of Santos.
For the attentive in attendance, you likely noticed that none of Toshiba's newly announced laptops (yes, even the absurdly powerful Qosmio rigs) have built-in Blu-ray drives.
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