Browsing: mortgage rates
Say goodbye to the 20% down payment. Zillow says you’ll need to put down roughly 35%, or almost $128,000, to afford a typical home
Thinking about buying a home? You might be in for a rude awakening: a 20% down payment is no longer…
Whether you’re thinking about buying a home for the first time, buying a bigger or smaller home, or refinancing your…
Home prices are rising at their slowest pace in more than a year and mortgage rates could drop soon, setting up a showdown between buyers and sellers
Home prices are much higher than they were before the pandemic. But record home price appreciation might be coming to…
After sitting on the sidelines for months, sellers finally want to offload their houses, but no one’s buying
Fortune once called the historically low mortgage rates of the pandemic era a blessing and a curse. It’s true—there’s nothing…
The hot metros of the pandemic are crashing back to earth as demand for their homes cool
In a post-pandemic world, the hot metropolitan areas sometimes called “pandemic darlings” are no longer, namely, those in Texas and…
The housing market’s pivotal spring selling season is coming to an end—not with a bang, but with a whimper
This year’s spring selling season wasn’t a typical one, and while it seems to be better than last year, there…
26%: That’s how much more it costs to maintain a U.S. single family home—not even counting the mortgage—than it did before COVID
The cost of owning a home in the US has increased 26% since 2020, as expenses including taxes, insurance and…
Zero percent down mortgages might help more first-time homebuyers break into the housing market—but there are caveats
It’s not surprising “zero-down mortgages are making a comeback,” as CNN recently declared. After all, home prices skyrocketed during the…
The housing market is finally seeing more inventory, but buyers aren’t showing up as a ‘cold reality is settling down’
The US housing market — long crippled by an inventory drought — is finally starting to see listings rise. But…
There’s a way to land sub-4% mortgage rates for buyers locked out of the housing market. But they’ve been hard to get—until now
With mortgage rates continuing to hover between 7% and 8%, it’s been challenging—near impossible—for many homebuyers to break into today’s…












