2019 and the effect on monthly payments for a $165,000 loan: Mortgage applications continue to tumble As mortgage rates climb, home loan applications continue taking the hits. Total loan...

Several closely watched mortgage rates decreased today. The average rates on 30-year fixed and 15-year fixed mortgages both ticked downwards. On the variable-mortgage side, the average rate on...

build wealth again through homeownership. It also could provide support to a housing market that has sputtered lately. Existing home sales are down 6.6% so far this year compared with the year-ago...

basis points). Calculate your monthly payment using Bankrate’s mortgage calculator . View mortgage rates This week, will rates go up, down or remain unchanged? Up Down Unchanged...

the issue in the latest Voice for Real Estate news video from NAR. also covered are the Midwestern floods . They’re a month behind us now, but the effects still linger. Some areas in Nebraska...

Thirty-year fixed mortgage rates are at their highest level in over a month, and home buyers are starting to retreat a bit. Mortgage applications fell 7.3% last week, according to the Mortgage...

subprime mortgage lenders in major metro areas, with more than 10,000 foreclosures between 2005 and 2007. GE, reeling from years of bad acquisitions and questionable decisions, is now seeking...

with,” the Treasury Department chief told a fintech conference sponsored by the FDIC in suburban Washington, DC. He said he prefers a private solution to data privacy. The approach should be...

Purchase mortgage applications, which until now were unaffected by the recent rise in interest rates, fell by 4% on a seasonally adjusted basis from last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers...

) - Mortgage applications decreased 7.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending...

n money markets, it’s actually in good company. According to the FDIC this is the typical rate being paid by local banks. But that doesn’t mean you need to accept near zero interest rates to...

Reserve Board of Governors, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Intex Solutions, Inc. and FDIC According to Otten, MetLife differentiates itself from conventional life-company multifamily lending...

than 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 each day. Though the housing market for Americans in need of assisted and independent living has greatly expanded, the cost is often out of reach for...

150 units a year during the 2000s, according to a February 2018 housing market profile by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The math adds up to a widely acknowledged shortage...

The number of March home sales in Ohio slumped from year-ago levels as prices continued to grow. That's according to new data released this week by the Ohio Association of Realtors, a professional...

sit for some time waiting for a buyer. But regardless of the housing market, you will have a piece of property with the potential to bring in money in one way or another: by rent or by sale. Of...

Professional Journalists . He has produced audio podcasts on CRE topics for the NAR Commercial Division and the CCIM Institute. Steve has also served (from August 2017 to March 2018) as national...

Trend Index. Want to see where rates are right now? See local mortgage rates. Average mortgage rates Last week Last updated April 23, 2019. Methodology: The rates you see above are...

advocates like myself. Krigsman shared the concern that many have that the housing market is becoming all peanut butter or caviar; that is there is no housing priced for people in the “middle...

the first months of the year coming home to roost as weak housing market trends persist. Remember that housing starts tumbled 8.7% in February, and building permits were down 1.6% as well, according...

t claim it because the last ticket he checked matched perfectly.  Home sales up: US new-home sales rose to a 16-month high, climbing 4.5% in March Target recall: Retailer is recalling nearly...

Knight. Prepayment activity shot up 28% in March from February , on lower mortgage rates and ahead of an anticipated competitive spring purchase season. The increase to a prepayment rate of...

climbed 4.5% in March, reaching a a 16-month high, as falling mortgage rates and prices and stronger wage gains bolstered demand. New home were sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of...

NAR released a summary of existing-home sales data showing that housing market activity this March, fell 4.9 percent from February 2019. Despite February’s gains, sales of existing-homes dropped...

also announced Tuesday that Toby MacFarlane, a former senior executive at a title insurance company, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud. MacFarlane paid $450,000 in...

A shortage of starter houses is choking home sales in the Twin Cities, making it a less-than-stellar spring for first-time home buyers in the Twin Cities. By the end of March, the number of...

Toby MacFarlane, of Del Mar, Calif., a former senior executive at a title insurance company, each pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in plea agreements filed in federal court Tuesday. On two...

to comment. Another issue that jeopardizes consumer rights is that Ditech alleges foreclosures should not be halted by the automatic stay ordered by bankruptcy court, according to the filing...

and the end of 2018, for example, total interest income for all FDIC insured banks rose by 17%, but the cost of funds for the industry rose by almost 74%. The rate of change in funding costs...

third straight increase that reflects a boost from lower borrowing costs. Single-family home sales rose 4.5% to a 692,000 annualized pace that topped all estimates in Bloomberg's survey, while...