Quarter of people have seen housing costs rise in past three months as increasing rent and mortgage rates put pressure on household finances

How is today’s housing starts data, which beat expectations, good for mortgage rates? Typically good economic data is bad for rates, especially in this environment, when a Fed member will come out and say building […]

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 7.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis compared to the previous week. On an unadjusted basis, the […]

How hot is the housing market? There is certainly no shortage of indicators, but three in particular were published in the last week: the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the All-Transactions House Price Index from the […]