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.

With mortgage rates and home prices stubbornly high, there's no way the couple, who make about $270,000 a year and pay about ...

Mortgage rates made little movement this week amidst the backdrop of a Federal Reserve meeting and a sluggish housing market.

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 ...

These illustrated market experiences are quite different than what most folks believe happens when the Fed lowers rates.

The mortgage rate drop provides little relief for prospective shoppers looking ahead to the spring homebuying season.

The average rate remains just below 7%, little relief for prospective home shoppers looking ahead to the spring homebuying ...