Mortgage rates virtually unchanged to start the new year. Freddie Mac’s 30-year rate is averaging 6.16% for the week ending ...

Mortgage rates are lower than they were a year ago. Many hopeful buyers still can’t afford a house. Homeowners with low mortgage rates and a lot of equity feel little pressure to sell, which is ...

Homebuying can be a stressful and time-consuming process, and one of the less glamorous parts of the journey involves constant monitoring of the interest rate environment for timely opportunities to ...

The government-sponsored enterprise has a key forecast for homebuyers. As the inflation rate grew in 2022, the Federal Reserve responded by hiking the federal funds rate to make borrowing more ...

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If anyone needed any further convincing that a Fed rate cut is no guarantee of lower mortgage rates, today is a great piece of evidence. Perhaps "great" is the wrong word. There was nothing great ...

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Homebuilder sentiment has trended lower all of 2025, although it did increase at one point in July. Renter-occupied household growth exceeded owner-occupied growth at the end of the first quarter of ...

3% mortgage rates are unlikely to return soon. Current low-rate mortgages are causing a "locked-in" effect. Housing affordability remains a significant challenge, especially for first-time buyers.

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