Fannie Mae on Friday slashed its 2024 forecast as a result of weak spring home sales, but listings are returning to the market and mortgage…
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Purchase loan applications have surged for two weeks in a row, but rates for conforming mortgages are inching back up toward 7 percent this week…
Key Fed inflation metric expected to drop June 28 following unexpected decline in May wholesale prices and jump in jobless claims to highest level since…
Policymakers now envision making just one rate cut this year, but investors who fund most mortgages are still betting the central bank will change its…
Rates have returned to last week’s levels, when applications for purchase loans leapt by 9 percent from the week before, and refi applications surged by…
Employers added 272,000 jobs in May, far exceeding the consensus view among economists that payrolls would rise by 180,000 and the average of 232,000 over…
In less than a week, a series of reports has changed the outlook for the timing and magnitude of future Fed rate cuts, sending mortgage…
As rates on conventional mortgages head back above 7 percent, homebuyer demand for purchase loans is wilting, with applications dropping for a third week in…
Bond market investors who fund most mortgages shrugged off hawkish remarks by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller that he wants to see “several more months…
Homebuyers have yet to respond in force to drop in rates, which have been in retreat from 2024 highs for three consecutive weeks following Fed…