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Happy rate-a-versary: What Fed interest-rate hikes have done to your wallet over the past two years
MarketWatch via Yahoo Finance· 1 month agoIt’s not just inflation: Over the last two years, higher interest rates have also raised costs for...
Mortgage rates edge down. Home buyers are seizing the moment — while it lasts.
MarketWatch via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoU.S. mortgage rates were 6.73% in the same period last year, compared to 6.88% today for the...
Mortgage rates rise to highest level in two months and may stay higher for longer, Freddie Mac says
MarketWatch via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoThe 30-year mortgage rate averaged 6.77% in the same period last year, compared with 6.32% today. -...
What Is an Adjustable Rate Mortgage and Why Is It Considered Risky?
GoBankingRates via AOL· 2 years agoWhen interest rates are low, conventional mortgages rule the day. There's no need to take a chance...
Mortgage rates dip after Fed meeting. Freddie Mac expects rates to decline more.
MarketWatch via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoRates were 6.09% the same period last year, compared to 6.63% today for the 30-year. - Getty Images...
5 charts that show how the Fed's war on inflation has frozen the housing market
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 1 month agoFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell talks at a news conference.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The...
We have a $550,000 home with a 2.5% mortgage rate, but don’t like the neighborhood. Should we sell...
MarketWatch via Yahoo Finance· 2 months ago“We welcomed a child last year and this is not an area where we want him to grow up given that...
Homebuyers are being haunted like Scrooge this holiday season as Fortune 500 chief economist sees...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoThe old adage that history repeats itself can be just as worrisome as it is comforting. But in a...
Fannie Mae’s CEO says shopping for a house right now is downright Dickensian: A ‘tale of 2 markets’
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoIt was the best of times…but really it was the worst of times. The combination of 7%-plus mortgage...
A veteran market watcher who saw the Fed creating a disaster in 2008 says ‘distortions in the...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoWhen it comes to investors, bankers, and politicians, incentives matter. Not many writers know that...