The average for a 30-year loan fell to 5.3%, the lowest in a month and down from 5.7% last week, Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday.
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The red hot pandemic-era housing market is cooling as historically tight available inventory shows signs of reversing. An affordability crisis has removed millions of new home buyers as the number of active US listings soared 18.7% in June from a year earlier, the most significant increase in Realtor.com’s data going back to 2017, according to Bloomberg.
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The NAHB survey of homebuilder sentiment fell for the 5th straight month in May to its lowest since June 2020… but has a long way to go to catch down to homebuyer sentiment…
US mortgage rates continued their near-vertical ascent, soaring to levels not seen since Jan 2019 at an almost unprecedented speed…
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The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage shot significantly higher Friday, rising 24 basis points to 4.95%, according to Mortgage News Daily. It is now 164 basis points higher than it was one year ago.
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Despite the unexpected plunge in existing home sales, analysts expected new home sales in February to rebound modestly from January’s drop but they were wrong (again) as new home sales fell 2.0% (+1.1% exp) and worse still January’s 4.5% drop was revised drastically worse to a 8.4% plunge.
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After unexpectedly plunging in January, pending home sales were expected rebound very modestly in February (despite both new- and existing-home-sales tumbling as mortgage rates soar).
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As a result of the recent spike in rates, economists are now lowering their home sales forecasts for this year.
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