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Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Nov 22, 2024 | Charts, Economics, Finance, Interest Rates, Market Watch, Real Estate | 26
Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Jan 22, 2024 | Economics, Feature Articles, Interest Rates, Real Estate | 0
This article dives into how interest rates are structured, how lenders set the interest rate on a mortgage, and how rates affect property values.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Jan 10, 2024 | Economics, Home Sales, Interest Rates, Real Estate, Recessions | 0
Today’s homebuyer is limited to borrowing 9.7% less mortgage money than a year earlier due to higher interest rates alone.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Dec 14, 2023 | Charts, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Real Estate, Recessions | 40
The yield spread indicates the likelihood of a recession or recovery one year forward.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Nov 27, 2023 | Finance, Interest Rates, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0
A consumer-purpose mortgage origination secured by the borrower’s primary residence earns a Section 32 designation based on a three-step set of APR tests.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Oct 2, 2023 | Economics, Home Sales, Interest Rates, Market Watch, Real Estate, Recessions | 0
Planning for the next several years in real estate transactions will require patience and a very different approach to the past decade of recovery economics driven by rate decreases.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Aug 25, 2023 | Economics, Home Sales, Interest Rates, Real Estate, Recessions | 0
Sticky homeowners are unwilling to relieve the inventory shortage in 2023.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Aug 25, 2023 | Economics, Finance, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Real Estate, Recessions | 1
Media pundits in their coverage of today’s high mortgage interest rates ignore the 60-year cycle of rising and falling mortgage rates and the seller’s pricing response to rising and falling rates.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Jul 2, 2023 | Economics, Interest Rates, Real Estate, Recessions | 0
The typical mortgaged homebuyer is able to borrow 11% less purchase-assist mortgage money than a year ago due to higher interest rates alone.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Jun 15, 2023 | Economics, Finance, Interest Rates, Real Estate, Recessions | 0
Waiting for mortgage rates to drop to the “right” level is mental joy riding.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Jun 14, 2023 | Feature Articles, Finance, Interest Rates, Loan Products, Real Estate, Video | 0
Learn how interest rates on ARMs are calculated during each adjustment period.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Jun 3, 2023 | Feature Articles, Finance, Interest Rates, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate, Video | 0
The face of the ARM has changed over the years, most markedly during the Millennium Boom of the mid-2000s.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | May 4, 2023 | Economics, Feature Articles, Interest Rates, Real Estate | 0
Learn how the Fed is using their benchmark rate as a monetary policy tool to restrain levels of borrowing in 2022.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Apr 20, 2023 | Charts, Interest Rates, Real Estate | 5
Mortgage rates are on their way up.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Apr 10, 2023 | Charts, Home Sales, Interest Rates, Real Estate | 2
Find out what today’s buyer purchasing power means for tomorrow’s home prices in California.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Apr 2, 2023 | Charts, Economics, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Real Estate, Recessions | 1
A homebuyer with the same income is able to borrow 23% less purchase-assist mortgage money than a year ago due to interest rate hikes alone.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Mar 27, 2023 | Finance, Interest Rates, Loan Products, Mortgages | 0
This Mortgage Concepts video breaks down the critical elements of an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM).
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Mar 16, 2023 | Charts, Economics, Interest Rates, Real Estate, Recessions | 0
The interest rate inversion has completely eliminated the appeal of ARMs — and the price support ARMs provided before the inversion.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jan 20, 2023 | Feature Articles, Home Sales, Interest Rates, Real Estate | 0
Little interest rate changes make a big difference in how much a homebuyer can pay.
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