After the Federal Reserve approved the second rate cut of the year, mortgage rates moved in the opposite direction as investors who fund most home…
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Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages hit another 2025 low on Tuesday, dropping to 6.12 percent, nearly a full percentage point lower than January. Rates now…
The FHA’s Office of Single Family Housing and some of its mortgage insurance programs are “operational but with limited services,” HUD said in bulletin to…
Recent Trump appointee Stephen Miran was the lone dissenter in Wednesday’s 11-1 vote, holding out for a bigger, 1/2 percentage point rate cut advocated by…
Homebuyer loan applications flooded in last week at the second-highest level of the year. Demand for adjustable-rate mortgage loans is at the highest level since…
Investors who fund most home loans are no longer wondering whether the Federal Reserve will cut rates this month, but by how much. At least…
Nearly twice as many Realtor.com visitors say they would be more likely to buy if a recession hits compared to the share who say they’d…