Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To overcome these headwinds, builders quickly turned to lowering mortgage rates through permanent rate buydowns — a tool last widely used in the early 1980s when the rates exceeded 12%. This phenomenon becomes clearly apparent when compared to existing home sales, for which these buydowns are very rare.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Fratantoni brought up this point, saying that short-term rates will stay at 0% at least until 2022 and said that we will see a very cautious Fed when it comes to raising rates from here. However, he forecasted that rates will steadily rise over the next year. Housing inventory and prices.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was an extraordinary year for the housing market: mortgage rates at an all-time low, record high annual growth in single-family prices and rents, lowest foreclosure rates in a generation and the largest number of home sales in 15 years. In addition, more for-sale inventory will likely be available on the market.

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