Stories Tagged as
Mortgage
More housing stock means the market may be shifting in favor of buyers
by
Amy Scott
and Sean McHenry
Mar 18, 2024
New home listings hit a 17-month high in February, and as more sellers sell, housing prices could flatten, says Conor Sen at Bloomberg Opinion.
For a couple in Maine, calling a Grange Hall home means financial freedom
by
Sarah Leeson
Feb 23, 2024
With the goal of living mortgage-free, "I really knew that I would go anywhere and I would live in anything," Kate Mill says.
Amid a national housing shortage, Texas is an exception
by
Amy Scott
and Sarah Leeson
Feb 7, 2024
"This market is just really wacky right now," says Houston-based broker LaTisha Grant.
Why does a bank sell your mortgage?
Feb 6, 2024
Most are sold into the secondary market, which increases liquidity and makes it easier to get a mortgage at a lower interest rate.
The housing sector is coming out of the doldrums. But will it keep improving through 2024?
by
Justin Ho
Dec 20, 2023
We jumped into the Marketplace time machine to ask some experts how things look from next December.
Why a 0.08% drop in the mortgage rate might seem bigger than that
Dec 15, 2023
There’s research that shows when the left-most digit of a number changes, we tend to give the change more weight.
More older people are still paying off mortgages
Nov 30, 2023
New data from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies shows that a growing number of people in their 60s, 70s and 80s still have mortgage debt, and they’re carrying more of it than than previous generations did.
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Why isn't there an Amazon for real estate?
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Sarah Leeson
Nov 8, 2023
Despite the world going digital, homebuying is still a highly analog process. James Rodriquez of Insider discusses the quest for a superapp.
With many homebuyers priced out, builders try to sweeten the deal
Oct 25, 2023
A lot of homebuilders are working with lenders to offer lower mortgage rates — or they're offering other incentives like money towards closing costs.
Higher interest rates have mortgages and commercial real estate loans in the dumps
Oct 9, 2023
And yet banks are loaning out more money than a year ago.