by Beth McGuire | May 1, 2025 | Industry News, Latest News, Premier |
Stubbornly elevated but steady is how economists are positioning average mortgage rates over the last several weeks, ticking up and down in the high sixes range but remaining below 7%, a threshold that seems to keep homebuying activity moving, albeit slowly. According...
by Beth McGuire | Apr 30, 2025 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Applications for home purchases saw more declines of late, falling for the third-straight week amid tariff and trade uncertainty and mortgage rates holding steady at an elevated 30-year average. According to the latest Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey from the...
by | Apr 25, 2025 | Consumer, Economy, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Consumer sentiment continued to worsen in April, declining across all political groups with significant hurdles anticipated in multiple sectors of the economic landscape. April’s Index of Consumer Sentiment, a survey conducted by the University of Michigan, had a...
by | Apr 24, 2025 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier |
After an initial firestorm sparked by President Donald Trump’s sharply critical—and threatening—comments directed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last week, the controversy may be dying down, at least for now. On Tuesday, Trump clarified that he had “no...
by | Apr 24, 2025 | Economy, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Mortgage rates saw very little change this week—similar to recent weeks—as some market stability starts to form, according to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, noted that mortgage rates have remained in the...