A more optimistic outlook of where mortgage rates are headed drives the largest increase in Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index in more than two…
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More consumers are coming around to economists’ views that home prices and mortgage rates probably peaked last year, according to a monthly survey by Fannie…
Only 16 percent of those surveyed by Fannie Mae in October said it was a good time to buy a home, and the percentage who…
Fannie Mae finds 81 percent of Americans think the economy is on the wrong track, but the share of consumers who think it’s a good…
Although 76 percent said it was a good time to sell, rising mortgage rates are likely to make some would-be sellers reluctant to give up…
Only 24 percent of consumers think now is a good time to buy a home — the lowest reading ever recorded in a monthly survey…
Only one in four consumers responding to Fannie Mae’s latest monthly National Housing Survey thought it was a good time to buy — a new…
Most consumers continue to report that it’s a good time to sell a home — but a bad time to buy — and they frequently…