Mortgage rates are expected to ease as markets anticipate Federal Reserve policymakers will raise rates just one more time this year and then reverse course. …
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The housing sector’s resilience to higher prices and mortgage rates has bolstered prices, but a lack of for-sale inventory is expected to limit sales, according…
Homebuyer demand for purchase loans rose 8 percent last week even after adjusting for the expected seasonal boost from the spring homebuying season. Source: Inman…
Past periods of high inflation and high rates — be it in 1979, 1980 or 1990 — have caused the housing market to stall. But…
Fannie Mae economists say jumbo mortgages and construction loans could get more scarce if regional banks tighten lending standards. Source: Inman News
Mortgage rates expected to ease even as Fed vows to continue “quantitative tightening” that’s trimming mortgage holdings by $35 billion a month. Source: Inman News
While the Consumer Price Index jumped a modest 0.4 percent month over month, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank could keep interest…
Bank failures and a slowdown in wage growth have forecasters thinking the Fed will back off from an aggressive rate hike campaign next week. Source:…
Futures markets are taking the Fed chair at his word that policymakers may have to hike rates faster and take them higher to combat inflation …
An MBA survey shows demand for purchase loans is down 18 percent week over week and 41 percent from a year ago as mortgage rates…