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Mortgage Rates Throttle Higher, Snapping a 4-Week Streak of Declines
Getty ImagesRates for home loans rose slightly, squelching borrower enthusiasm even as the long-term outlook for rates remained upbeat for buyers. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.41% in the...
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More New-Home Sales Are for Houses That Haven’t Even Been Started Yet. That’s...
Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe percentage of newly constructed homes sold that hadn’t even been started yet has climbed to a fresh one-year high. In late 2017, MarketWatch published a story called...
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Home Remodeling Is a $450 Billion Market, and It’s Only Going to Get Bigger
Getty ImagesIf you’ve ever undertaken a big kitchen renovation, finished off a basement, or added a wing to your home, you know the feeling: No matter what the contractor promises, remodeling takes...
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Mortgage Rates Slide to 13-Month Low, Luring Americans Back Into the Housing...
iStockRates for home loans fell, with no bottom in sight as investors increasingly brace for slowing economic growth. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.28% in the March 21 week, mortgage...
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The Eviction Crisis Is Starting to Look a Lot Like the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
iStockStable housing is increasingly out of reach for many Americans, as both rentals and homes to own grow more expensive and options dwindle. Evictions may be one of the most visible manifestations....
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Mortgage Rates Hold Near 14-Month Lows as Application Demand Revs Up
iStockRates for home loans were little changed near recent lows as investors struggled to make sense of competing economic narratives, offering some breathing room to house hunters. The 30-year...
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Forget Everything You’ve Heard About First-Time Homebuyers. They’re Doing All...
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHow many first-time homebuyers are there in the housing market? That’s an important question. A smaller share of first-timers suggests that the market may be too...
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Mortgage Rates Tick Up as the Spring Selling Season Hangs in the Balance
Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRates for home loans edged up after reports showed the economy was shrugging off its winter sluggishness. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.12% during...
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Rent Is Accelerating Again. What Can Be Done?
Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRental price growth, which took a brief breather this winter, is surging higher again, adding fresh urgency to policymakers’ considerations of how to address a...
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Mortgages? Big Banks May Be Throwing In the Towel
RKO Pictures via Getty ImagesYou can kiss George Bailey’s mortgage market goodbye. As the small-town banker in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Bailey epitomized an old-fashioned world in which...
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Housing Starts Lurch to a Near 2-Year Low
sculpies/iStockThe numbers: Housing starts were at a 1.14 million seasonally adjusted annual rate in March, the Commerce Department said Friday, 0.3% lower compared to February. It missed the...
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Existing-Home Sales Slide Nearly 5% in March as the On-Again-Off-Again...
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe numbers: Existing-home sales ran at a seasonally adjusted annual 5.21 million rate in March, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. That was 4.9% lower than...
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Mortgage Rates Climb for Fourth Straight Week as Easy Money Crackdown Begins
Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRates for home loans ticked up slightly, a reminder that the easy-money era for mortgages will likely have to end at some point. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage...
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Pending Home Sales Skyrocket in March, Signalling a Spring Rebound for Housing
Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe numbers: An index of pending-home sales surged 3.8% in March, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. Economists surveyed by...
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Mortgage Rates Tumble as One Economist Waves the White Flag
iStockRates for home loans slumped, another reminder of the “lower for longer” conditions that have dogged financial markets since the 2008 financial crisis. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged...
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Mortgage Rates Slump for the Third Straight Week as Big Questions Dog the...
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesRates for home loans fell along with the broader bond market even as the transformation of the real-estate industry quickened pace. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.10%...
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Mortgage Rates Slide to Match the Lowest of 2019 as Trade War Heats Up
andyKRAKOVSKI/iStockRates for home loans fell for the fourth straight week, and the benchmark mortgage product matched its low for 2019, as financial market turmoil offered a reprieve for house...
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Americans Are Driving Until They Qualify Again, and Builders Are Responding
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHome builders are applying for permits to build houses in the “exurbs” more than any other area of the country, another sign of how the housing affordability...
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Mortgage Rates Slide Below 4% as the Trade War Buffets Markets
OlegAlbinsky/iStockThe 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.99% in the May 30 week, down from 4.06%, Freddie Mac said Thursday. That marked a 16-month low for the popular product, which has eked out...
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Pending Home Sales Fall, Marking the 16th Straight Month of Annual Declines
Ron Antonelli/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe numbers: Pending home sales fell a seasonally adjusted 1.5% in April and were 2% lower than a year ago, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday....
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Size Matters: Tracking the Economy Through New-Home Square Footage
absolut_100/iStockThe U.S. housing market may not be synonymous with the business cycle, as a famous 2007 paper proclaimed, but the ups and downs in housing, which represents a big part of the economy,...
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Home Prices Accelerate for the First Time in 12 Months
Beka_C/iStockNational home prices notched a stronger annual gain in April than in March, marking the first time in over a year that prices have accelerated from one month to the next. That data comes...
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Mortgage Rates Slump to 2-Year Low—but Consumers May Not Bite
YinYang/iStockRates for home loans slid as investors snatched up bonds in the wake of an intensifying global trade war. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.82% in the May 30 week, down from...
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Mortgage Rates Hold at Two-Year Lows, Giving Borrowers Another Shot at the...
David McNew/Getty ImagesRates for home loans mostly held steady, and even declined slightly, as investor jitters about a slowing economy and geopolitics continued to keep bonds attractive. The 30-year...
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Mortgage Rates Are Moving Sideways. Will They Fall From Here?
bauhaus1000/iStockRates for home loans were mixed, but stayed near recent lows, even as bond market moves suggest another big step down lies ahead. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.84% in the...
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Mortgage Rates Slump to a 2 1/2-Year Low
Chloe Harris/iStockRates for home loans tumbled, sending the benchmark to its lowest since late 2016. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.73% in the June 27 week, down 11 basis points, Freddie...
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Pending Home Sales Roar Higher, but Are Stuck Below Year-Ago Levels
EvgeniyShkolenko/iStockThe numbers: Pending home sales jumped by a seasonally adjusted 1.1% in May but were 0.7% lower than a year ago, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. The May...
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Mortgage Rates Tick Higher as Difficult Questions Face Veterans
CoryUlrich/iStockRates for home loans edged up as financial markets stabilized on hope about global trade, but held near long-time lows. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.75% in the...
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Wisdom of Crowds? Ordinary Americans Beat ‘Experts’ in Predicting Mortgage Rates
lucky336/iStockIf you’ve ever locked in a mortgage rate only to watch borrowing costs drop even more, you know how frustrating it can be to try to predict what markets will do and when, exactly,...
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Mortgage Rates Hold Steady at Long-Time Lows, Good News for Borrowers
peterspiro/iStockRates for home loans were little-changed during a choppy week for financial markets, but hovered near their lowest in about two years, giving a boost to home shoppers. The 30-year...
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