US housing supply reaches nearly 40-year low
The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the severe housing supply shortage in the U.S., with the number of homes on...
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Mortgage rates notch new low
Mortgage rates sank to an all-time low — again. The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped .07 percentage points for the week ending Sept. 10, reaching 2.86 percent — a new low...
Mumbo jumbo: Why are mortgage rates all over the place?
Jumbo loans, typically seen as lower risk investments by banks, are seeing rates vary widely among lenders. The mortgages,...
Real estate stocks outperform broader market but still sink
Real estate stocks recovered some of their losses after signs of a second wave of coronavirus infections pushed the...
Fed “not in any hurry” to raise interest rates: Powell
The Federal Reserve won’t push up interest rates any time soon, the central bank’s chairman said Wednesday as the...
Home lending in the time of corona: “Underwriting is really difficult right now”
How do you underwrite a home mortgage when the economy is in flux and everyone is forced to stay...
Coronavirus chaos driving lenders to safer projects amid low interest rates
UPDATED, 5:26 p.m. March 13: Maddd Equities and Joy Construction recently landed a $45 million refinancing for their luxury...
Brexits and Bubbles: How investors view Europe’s shaky real estate market
For the first time in three years, foreign investors poured more money into U.S. real estate assets than European...
Europe could be headed toward a housing crisis
Negative interest rates and high rates of household debt in Europe may be leading to a housing bubble. The...
Fed cuts rates, signaling caution ahead for real estate investors
The Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday to again cut its benchmark interest rate, this time by 25 basis points,...
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