by Susanne Dwyer | Apr 16, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News |
Will more interest rate hikes this year turn millennials off to buying a home? A sizable share of millennials recently surveyed by TransUnion decided to put off buying a home after learning of the interest rate hike in 2016, with 42 percent reporting that the raise in...
by Susanne Dwyer | Apr 1, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
Home prices are on a hot streak, reaching a 31-month high in January in the recently released S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices. Prices fired up 5.9 percent year-over-year in the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, an increase from...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 16, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
Mortgage rates again averaged higher this week in wait of the Federal Reserve’s decision on the key interest rate, with the 30-year fixed mortgage rate rising nine points to 4.30 percent, according to Freddie Mac’s recently released Primary Mortgage Market...
by Suzanne De Vita | Mar 15, 2017 | Latest News, National, News, Trending |
The Federal Reserve voted on Wednesday to again raise the key interest rate one-quarter percentage point, the first of three hikes anticipated for 2017. The rate was increased one-quarter percentage point just three months ago, in December 2016. “In view of...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 11, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, National, News |
Thirty-year fixed mortgage rates on average hit a year-high this week ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on the key interest rate, increasing to 4.21 percent, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®). Fifteen-year mortgage...