Mortgage Loan Rates, New Applications Moved Only Slightly Last Week
Applications for new mortgage loans slipped a bit last week while rates on the most popular mortgages remained steady at just over 4%.
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Freddie Mac Sees More Home Buying, but There’s a Catch
Freddie Mac forecasts that mortgage lending will rise this year and next on the strength of combined low mortgage interest rates and slowing home price growth.
Home Price Increases Continue to Pull Back: Case-Shiller
Year-over-year home price increases declined again in May, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index released Tuesday morning.
Mortgage Loan Rates, New Applications Both Dropped Last Week
Mortgage loan rates decreased slightly last week, but the drop had no positive effect on the number of new mortgage loan applications which also dipped slightly.
June Sales of Existing Home Fall Short of Estimates
Sales of existing homes dipped 1.7% month over month in June and more than 2% compared with June 2018, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The World’s 2 Most Expensive Countries Are Islands
The most expensive countries in the world, according to new cost-of-living indices, are both places where the (expensive) living is easy: The Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda,…
Mortgage Loan Rates on the Rise Again
Mortgage loan rates rose last week as yields on U.S. Treasuries rose following Fed chair Jerome Powell's comments on cutting the federal funds rate.
Rising Home Prices Keep Foreclosure Rates at Multi-Decade Lows
Delinquent home mortgage loans have fallen to 20-year lows and foreclosures have dipped back below pre-crisis levels.
Average US Rent Rose 2.6% in First Half of 2019
Average apartment rents across the United States rose by 2.6% in the first half of 2019. Manhattan has the highest average of any U.S. city while Wichita, Kansas, has the lowest.
Selling Your House May Cost You a Lot More Than You Think
Even if you decide to sell your home without using a real estate agent there are costs you will probably need to pay to ensure a quick sale at the best possible price.
Mortgage Loan Rates Mixed, New Applications Down in Holiday Week
Adjusted to account for the Fourth of July holiday, new mortgage applications dropped by 2.4% last week while mortgage interest rates mostly made small adjustments.
Mortgage Loan Rates Post Mixed Moves, New Applications Flat
Mortgage loan rates made small moves last week while applications for new mortgages were essentially flat with the prior week.
Will Home Prices Hit All-Time Highs?
CoreLogic has just released its Home Price Index and Forecast for May 2019, and it shows that home prices rose both year over year and month over month.
4 Homebuilder Stocks Could Surge From Higher Home Sales
Each month Wedbush publishes its Top 25 report which looks at home sales, home listings, and median sales prices as published by the local Realtors' Associations. Because homebuilder pricing power is a function of…
The Median Home Value In This State Is Over $600,000–The Most Expensive In America
The median American home value is $217,600, or 3.6 times the median annual household income of $60,336. Nationwide, real estate values vary considerably across the country, and in some states, owning a home is…