• Mortgage rates cool again ahead of the Fed’s December meeting,Neil Pierson

    Mortgage rates cool again ahead of the Fed’s December meeting

    After briefly crossing the 7% threshold, mortgage rates have moved lower in the past two weeks. And they have the potential to continue dropping by the end of the year, depending on how markets react after next week’s Federal Reserve meeting.At HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center on Tuesday, the 30-

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  • Zillow’s forecast for the 2025 housing market in a word? Bumpy,Jeff Andrews

    Zillow’s forecast for the 2025 housing market in a word? Bumpy

    It seems like home sellers have had the upper hand in the housing market for years now, but rising inventory has steadily increased the amount of leverage for buyers.That trend will continue in 2025, according to Zillow’s annual housing market forecast. The portal giant projects a “bumpy” year for h

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  • Jump in pending home sales foreshadows positive end to the market in 2024,Jeff Andrews

    Jump in pending home sales foreshadows positive end to the market in 2024

    Despite the recent rise in mortgage rates, early indicators suggest that the housing market is pointed in the right direction. The latest signal comes from the National Association of Realtors‘ (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), which shows sales in October growing 5.4% year over year and 2% com

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