According to a new Fannie Mae report, overall public opinion toward housing is marginally stronger, despite consumers’ ...
It's time to rethink the mortgage or maybe abandon it for cooperative ownership. What questions to we need to answer?
The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 6.89 percent in the first week of February, per Freddie Mac.
Mortgage interest rates slipped lower over the past week, settling at the lowest level of 2025, but remaining elevated enough ...
Even the Federal Reserve, which sets a short-term benchmark interest rate for lenders, only indirectly impacts the mortgage ...
I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet.” Lenders and vendors are certainly meeting here in Austin. What’s going on out there? There’s endurance. Congratulations to my son ...
Ongoing strength in the U.S. economy drove mortgage rates up over 7% for the first time in eight months, casting doubt over a recovery in the housing sector. The 30-year mortgage rate inched up to ...
It is easy to see how house price growth that isn’t met by wage growth can reach an ugly crescendo. Mortgage affordability is poised to become the dominant challenge for the UK housing market in 2025, ...
Despite these affordability challenges, mortgage market activity and house prices proved surprisingly resilient in 2024. Annual house price growth ended the year at 4.7%, a marked improvement from the ...
Andrew Harvey, senior economist at Nationwide Mortgage affordability has seen a modest improvement over past year, but affordability remains stretched by historic standards, according to the ...
In 2024, home affordability improved marginally ... for the typical homebuyer using median home sale prices, monthly mortgage rates, median household incomes and the assumption of a 15% down ...
Here’s how much you needed to earn to qualify for a mortgage in 2024. Housing affordability—while still extremely expensive in many of Canada’s major real estate markets—was all over the ...