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Housing Wire
JANUARY 18, 2024
Mortgage rates continued their descent this week to mark their lowest level since May 2023, welcome news for homebuyers who have been waiting on the sidelines for rates to drop. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% 12 compared to a week earlier.
Housing Wire
AUGUST 10, 2023
Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.96% as of August 10, up from last week ’s 6.90%. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 5.22% a year ago at this time.
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Housing Wire
JULY 27, 2023
Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.81% as of July 27, up from last week ’s 6.78%. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 5.30% a year ago at this time.
Housing Wire
MAY 30, 2023
New construction could be the beacon of light the housing market desperately needs right now, as home builders are gaining confidence amongst rising sales, hopefully soon to translate to more residential construction breaking ground in the coming months.” Relatedly, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recorded a 4.3%
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 20, 2022
After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Realtor.com
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
“Occasionally, builders may have some wiggle room to provide to a buyer something like a refrigerator—new construction doesn’t always include one—or blinds, or something along those lines, to incentivize a buyer further to make a move during a specific time frame, like by the end of the month or quarter,” says Mackey.
Housing Wire
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
“Now the Fed has signaled that it will hike rates several more times this year and next year, so mortgage rates have plenty of room to go up even more.”. We do not see new construction returning in a meaningful way any time soon. Kurt Carlton, President of New Western. research and consulting at TransUnion.
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