By Clare Trapasso
Buying a home has never been easy. However, over the past few years, the process has become truly herculean as buyers have been pushed to emotional and financial limits. Sellers, on the other hand, largely have been abl...
By Aarthi Swaminathan
It’s getting more expensive to buy a home.
Mortgage rates increased again this week, sensing further aggressive rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.89% as of Sept....
By Diana Olick
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The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) increased to 5.80% last week from 5.65% the previous week.
Mortgage applications to p...
Author: Leslie Cook
This week's mortgage rates are back on the rise. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage is averaging 5.55%, an increase of 0.42 percentage points from last week, according to Freddie Mac's weekly rate survey.
Mortgage rat...
By Clare Trapasso
Nobody’s buying newly built homes anymore.
Just a few months ago, builders were sitting on lengthy lists of homebuyers waiting to purchase new construction and holding lotteries to announce who would be allowed to ...
By Diana Olick
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Consumer confidence in the housing market dropped to the lowest level since 2011, as both prospective buyers and sellers have become more pessimistic.
Just 17% of those surveyed in July said now is a goo...
By Orla McCaffrey
Mortgage rates fell after rising for two straight weeks, another indication that recession concerns are impacting the U.S. housing market.
The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 5.3%, ...
By Clare Trapasso
Home prices have continued their seemingly inexorable rise, despite America’s housing market purportedly being in the throes of a correction, a slowdown—whatever you want to call it. It’s defying what ma...