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Home Prices “Remarkably Stable” in April
BY: JANN SWANSON Jun 30 2020, 9:51AM Home prices continued to hold up on a national basis in April. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 4.7 [...]
Home Price Gains Defied The Odds in April
BY: JANN SWANSON Jun 24 2020, 9:38AM House prices continued to be unfazed by the current economic upheaval. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reports that its U.S. House Price Index for April, the first full month [...]
Mortgage Rates Hold Ground Near Lows. Can it Continue?
BY: MATTHEW GRAHAM Mortgage Rates Hold Ground Near Lows. Can it Continue? Jun 22 2020, 3:28PM Mortgage rates held their ground today, with the average lender in roughly the same shape as they were on Friday. Incidentally, that's [...]
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The Great Debate For Rates, Housing, And The Market
BY: MATTHEW GRAHAM Jun 19 2020, 4:32PM Coronavirus hit markets with unprecedented force in March. Stock prices and bond yields sank. When the outlook grew less dire, markets began moving back in the other direction. As [...]
New Home Construction is Officially Picking Back Up
BY: JANN SWANSON Jun 17 2020, 9:51AM Residential construction numbers climbed in May after their pandemic-driven collapse in April. The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development report that both permitting and starts [...]
Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher, But Still Near All-Time Lows
Mortgage rates were slightly higher today for the average lender. Additionally, some lenders bumped rates a bit in the middle of the day in response to weakness in the bond market. That weakness is increasingly [...]