Tag: Housing Affordability

On the heels of a dismal January existing home sales report, mortgage rates holding steady around 6% for weeks brings ...

Slow inventory recovery, coupled with major snowstorms across half of the country, put a massive halt on existing-home sales in ...

Even though 2026 is looking brighter, affordability—not just in homebuying but in homeownership—continues to face challenges as the market works ...

Applications for home loans remained essentially flat this week, declining slightly along with the refinance share of total mortgage activity, ...

Early January declines in mortgage rates unlocked refinance opportunities for nearly five million borrowers and helped push affordability to a ...

Along with low interest rates and the infusion of money from federal stimulus, one of the factors that drove the ...

Housing market watchers say improving home affordability and inventory levels are short-term positives for home shoppers, but caution that the ...

A new January market report shows home values have fallen on a monthly basis for six consecutive months and monthly ...

Labeled a "transition" year for the housing market, 2026 will continue to shift and grow as it did at the ...

Forces other than mortgage rates can impact homebuying activity, and this past week was a good example of that, as ...