Browsing: mortgage rates
Renting will be cheaper than buying for years, especially as home prices keep setting new all-time highs
More bad news for anyone who wants to ever own a home: Home prices just went up again. The S&P…
The housing market is so unaffordable that buyers need to make $30,000 more than they currently do to buy a home
The picture is bleak—housing is severely unaffordable. Your typical American household makes almost $30,000 less than it needs to afford…
The McMansion isn’t dead yet, but homes are shrinking. Last year, the median new home size fell to its lowest…
Buying a house has gotten so expensive that homebuyers need to make about $50,000 more than they did pre-pandemic to afford one
One of the few good things to happen during the pandemic was sub-3% mortgage rates, which allowed younger and lower-income…
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan explains why you’d better ‘get used to mortgage rates of six, seven percent’
American consumers are being pulled in opposite directions right now—by rising prices that threaten consumption on one side, and by…
Luxury home prices are hitting all-time highs, too, and all-cash bids are driving up the market, Redfin finds
Luxury home prices rose at twice the pace of non-luxury homes at the end of last year because high mortgage…
Compass CEO says housing market is poised for a rebound after 2023’s ‘modest buyer strike’ caused 39% of all listed home prices to drop
Toward the end of last year, things started to shift. More and more economists, executives, and analysts changed their tune,…
Boomers’ dominance of the housing market is so complete that empty nesters own twice as many large homes as millennials with kids, Redfin analysis reveals
We all know that baby boomers are dominating the housing market, as they either own their homes outright or have…
3 reasons why the frozen housing market of 2024 is actually more active than before the pandemic, Zillow says
Low inventory levels, high mortgage rates, and rising home prices have left the U.S. housing market frozen for the past…
Those falling mortgage rates don’t mean falling home prices, Capital Economics says, revising its forecast up for the year
Mortgage rates are falling, and they’re considerably lower than a recent peak reached in October at about 8%. But even…












