A house is for sale in Arlington, Virginia, July 13, 2023.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesMortgage rates just continue to climb higher, taking a particularly big leap last week. As a result, total mortgage demand fell 6% compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's...
Ryan Ratliff (C), Real Estate Sales Associate with Re/Max Advance Realty, shows Ryan Paredes (L) and Ariadna Paredes a home for sale on April 20, 2023 in Cutler Bay, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesThe average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 7.72% on Tuesday, according...
Ryan Ratliff (L), Real Estate Sales Associate with Re/Max Advance Realty, shows Ryan Paredes (R) and Ariadna Paredes a home for sale on April 20, 2023 in Cutler Bay, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMortgage interest rates just hit a level not seen since the...
Sales of newly built homes fell 8.7% in August from July, to a seasonally adjusted annualized pace of 675,000 units, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That is the slowest pace since March. Sales were still 5.8% higher than August 2022.The Census count is based on signed contracts during...
A "For Sale" sign is displayed in front of a home in Arlington, Virginia, on August 22, 2023.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesSales of previously owned homes fell 0.7% in August from July to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.04 million units, according to the National Association...
U.S. homebuilders are feeling pessimistic about their business for the first time in seven months, thanks to stubbornly high mortgage rates.Builder confidence in the single-family housing market fell 5 points in September to 45 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. The decrease follows a...
Apartment rents have been cooling off sharply for several months, and they look like they're about to go negative compared with a year ago.Rents in August were just 0.28% higher than August 2022, according to real estate tech platform RealPage. Compare that to a year ago, when rents were...
After rising steadily since January, home prices may now be turning lower again.The latest read on home prices shows they hit another all-time high in July, rising 2.3% from the same month last year, according to Black Knight. That's a bigger annual gain than the roughly 1% recorded in...
Homes in Centreville, Maryland, US, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMortgage rates jumped last week to the highest level in 23 years, pushing mortgage demand from homebuyers to the lowest level in 28 years.Total mortgage application volume fell 4.2% last week, compared with the...