Mortgage rates

Experts anticipate a pullback in regulatory action and some potential pain for home builders but long-term interest rate impacts are a major question mark.

Yields on both 10-year and 2-year Treasurys moved significantly higher after the Trump election victory and that's bad news for mortgage rates going forward.

The incentive, meant to ramp up activity in Rocket's broker channel, is valid from Nov. 5 to Nov. 17.

Mortgage rates rose for the fifth consecutive week, to their highest level since August, although they remain more than a full percentage point lower than one year ago.

Despite the increase, the index level remains historically low, going back more than two decades as many prospective buyers still await a decline in mortgage rates.

August's Corelogic S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index was down 0.13% versus July, affected by tougher housing markets in the South and West.

Homebuilder stocks are tumbling Tuesday, down as much as 7.8%, after D.R. Horton delivered a 2025 revenue forecast that failed to meet Wall Street's expectations.

Mortgage bonds get hit hard when there's growing uncertainty about the direction of rates, due to the election, because their returns depend so much on it.

A trade group's estimates point to another quarter of profitability in housing finance, but originations have limits and loan performance is under pressure.

While the recent upward movement has dampened borrowing activity, housing researchers reported encouraging signs for business this fall.

Sales of new single-family homes increased 4.1% last month to a 738,000 annualized rate, government figures showed Thursday.

The post-pandemic normalization of the housing market, economic factors and natural disasters, are contributing to the rise in late payments, ICE Mortgage Technology said.

A pair of mortgage technology providers are bringing out tools to increase customer retention rates among servicers and originators.

Wall Street are paring back bets on aggressive policy easing as the U.S. economy remains robust and Fed officials have sounded a cautious tone over the pace of future rate decreases.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Lorie Logan repeated her call for the U.S. central bank to lower interest rates at a careful pace as the economic environment remains uncertain.

Fannie Mae didn't change its estimate for total originations this year.

A strong economy drove mortgage rates higher in the past week but it's still an advantageous market for consumers in some ways, according to Freddie Mac.

Reversing a year-ago trend, the U.S. economy and plateauing interest rates led to credit tightening in September, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The Fed's short-term rate cut hasn't lowered 30-year mortgage rates, which have been flat, but some buyers had reasons to act sooner rather than later.

Even before finding out inflation ran hotter than expected, the mortgage rate trajectory was not favorable, Freddie Mac reported.