The home affordability crisis has raged on for years with no sign of easing anytime soon, and that has some experts concerned -- especially for young adults.
Josh Younger is a lecturer at Columbia Law School and a former JPMorgan analyst. Brad Setser is a senior fellow at the ...
The Fed sets short-term interest rates, but does not directly control mortgage rates, which tend to move in tandem with the yields on long-term bonds. Those long-term rates are dependent on investor ...
When rates rose at the end of 2024, buyers pulled back. Pending home sales, which refer to the number of contracts signed to purchase a home, fell 5.5% in December. It was the first drop in five ...
We’ll likely see more modest growth in home prices in 2025, a change from skyrocketing prices in recent years.
The Petersen family’s two-bedroom apartment in northern California is starting to feel small. Four-year-old Jerrik’s toy monster trucks are everywhere in the 1,100-square-foot unit in ...
Today’s average mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.85%, down 0.16 percentage point from the previous week, ...
Mortgage rates made little movement this week amidst the backdrop of a Federal Reserve meeting and a sluggish housing market.
Before the pandemic hit in 2020, the typical mortgage payment was under $900. Fast forward five years and that monthly payment has surged 106%. Here's a look at why.
The mortgage tax break is one of the most common. It enables you to deduct the home mortgage interest on the first $750,000 ...
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Over the quarter, agency mortgage-backed securities posted a negative total return of -316 basis points and underperformed ...