Housing markets

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.

Just because millions of empty properties are located in U.S. cities, it doesn't counter the fact that an inventory shortage exists, or fix it, LendingTree said.

While rate-and-term refinance locks boomed, the rise in purchases also was telling as it was the first since the Fed started raising rates, Optimal Blue said.

Despite rising consumer confidence in the housing market, declining mortgage rates, alone, don't seem to be able to lure home buyers in, two new reports find.

Stephen Scherr starts this week as co-president at Pretium, a major landlord of U.S. single-family homes founded by his former Goldman colleague Don Mullen.

The top five cities have an average rate of housing units that were owner-occupied in 2022 of 70.32%.

Most of the investment community overall showed more favorable sentiment toward one presidential candidate than the other, but a subset of it begs to differ.

National issues such as the economy are prominent. But so are local concerns like a $10,000 limit on deductions for state and local taxes and high housing costs.

Buyers aren't necessarily responding to greater inventory and lower mortgage rates.

Mortgage applications were up and rates were down in the wake of the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut, but experts wonder will that be enough to counteract higher housing prices.