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Increases in the cost of living have been smaller recently, which could eventually make it easier for some people to afford homes and mortgages.
Finance

Lower inflation may be the hammer that cracks the unaffordable housing market for would-be homebuyers 

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November 16, 2023
Thanks to higher home prices and middling inventory, new owners tend to be older, earn more, and are likelier to be single or childless than in the past.
Personal Finance

This isn’t your parents’ first-time homebuyer: more millennials are breaking into the housing market, but they’re older than boomers were and need to earn a lot more money

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November 14, 2023
Husband and wife
Personal Finance

This couple was so miserable with a 2.5-hour super-commute, they took on an extra $1,200 monthly mortgage payment: ‘We’d do it again in a heartbeat’

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November 14, 2023
Father and son
Personal Finance

Millennials are replaying their parents’ housing market journey as first-time buyers in their 30s flood into an unaffordable market

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November 14, 2023
Nearly 7% of for-sale homes in the U.S. posted a price drop during the four weeks ending Oct. 29, which is the highest portion since Redfin started tracking this data in 2012.
Personal Finance

The housing market is starting to crack—Sellers are cutting prices at record levels as ‘You can no longer price based off of where sales were’

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November 6, 2023
Photo of a young man looking seriously at a financial statement
Personal Finance

Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward

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November 1, 2023
Builders are offering major incentives for buyers otherwise locked out of the housing market.
Finance

While some homebuyers pay 8% mortgage rates, others are wrangling steep discounts—and it’s creating a surprising surge in new home sales

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October 27, 2023
Capital Economics expects mortgage rates to stay above 6% through 2025.
Finance

The mortgage rate shock hitting the housing market has years left to run, Capital Economics says

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October 26, 2023
A TikTok trend says homeowners can save $80,000-plus with this mortgage hack. But is it too good to be true?
Personal Finance

Influencers want to hack your high mortgage rates for a new car or an extra vacation. ‘This can be a great strategy,’ housing market expert says—but only if you can really budget for it

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October 25, 2023
Merrick Garland
Success

Florida bank settles charges that it avoided mortgages in Black and Latino neighborhoods for $9 million

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
October 19, 2023
Artistic rendering of charts going up and down
Finance

Homebuyers and sellers: Get ready for mortgage rates at 8% for a long time, top economist says

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October 19, 2023
Priscilla Almodovar, Fannie Mae CEO, says the lock-in effect is a "tale of two housing markets" where sellers don't want to let go of their low mortgage rates and prospective buyers can't take on the new 7%-plus rates.
Finance

Fannie Mae’s CEO says shopping for a house right now is downright Dickensian: A ‘tale of 2 markets’

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October 17, 2023
Businesswoman Barbara Corcoran says now is the perfect time to buy a home.
Finance

‘Shark Tank’ star Barbara Corcoran insists now is ‘the very best time’ to buy a house despite interest rates hitting a 23-year high

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October 17, 2023
A “for sale” sign hangs in front of a home in Miami
Finance

The housing market is about to have its slowest year since the real estate bubble burst in 2008, according to National Association of Realtors

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October 16, 2023
Goldman is back with a 16-years-later look at the housing market crash of 2008—and finds affordability is even worse right now
Finance

Goldman is back with a 16-years-later look at the housing market crash of 2008—and finds affordability is even worse right now

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October 11, 2023

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