Mortgage rates tick up again
Mortgage rates keep climbing. The average 30-year, fixed-rate loan last week was 2.81 percent, compared to 2.73 percent the previous week. That’s the highest since November and 16 basis points above the record low...
Mortgage rates keep climbing. The average 30-year, fixed-rate loan last week was 2.81 percent, compared to 2.73 percent the previous week. That’s the highest since November and 16 basis points above the record low...
Applications for home loans fell last week as rates ticked up and the average loan size neared the $400,000 threshold. An index that tracks mortgage applications to buy homes dropped 4 percent, seasonally adjusted,...
Homebuyers are still going strong. An index that tracks mortgage applications to buy homes increased 3 percent, seasonally adjusted,...
Record-low interest rates have created an unprecedented opportunity for homebuyers. That’s the party line in the residential industry. But that’s not how things are playing out on the ground. Many buyers have little chance...
As the holiday season kicked off, buyers and homeowners got hungry for home financing. An index tracking the number...
Fall is usually a cool-down period for the U.S. housing market. Not this year. Homes sold nearly twice as...
Thanks to low mortgage rates and a surge in home-loan refinancing, the number of mortgage-backed securities has skyrocketed. The...
Interest rates on so-called jumbo mortgages are above the historically low rates for smaller traditional mortgages for the first...
Uncertainty, the very thing that drove the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage to a record low this...
Homebuyers took some time off last week as homeowners got busy. An index tracking the volume of mortgage applications...