Quantitative tightening is supposed to be boring. That’s by design.It doesn’t demand attention like a bank failure, emergency government rescue, wildly fluctuating interest rates or uncomfortably high inflation.But it is […]
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Back to news homeWhen It’s Easy to Be a Landlord, No One Wants to Sell
The offers came in and she agreed to sell it for $240,000, but when the negotiations dragged on she decided to walk away. And why not? Within weeks she had […]
Falling Mortgage Rates Bring Some Home Buyers Back to Market
Earlier in the pandemic, when many urbanites were leaving New York to work remotely in far-flung locations, Molly Parker Wade instead moved from the West Coast to Brooklyn to be […]
Low-Down-Payment Mortgages: Your 2023 Guide
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. They offer several low-down-payment options through lenders, both under their standard loan programs and those tailored to first-time buyers and lower- and middle-income households. Most […]
Are the Federal Reserve’s Rate Increases Working?
Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate that the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, stripping out food and fuel costs, will slow to 2.9 percent by next December from 5.1 percent today. That […]
A New Source of Economic Anxiety in Britain: Soaring Mortgage Rates
In June 2021, Monique Foulger reached a major milestone: At 30 years old, she bought her first home, a modest one-bedroom flat in Croydon in South London.Barely a year and […]
Mortgage Rates Too High? (Blame the Fed, Wall Street and Your Neighbor.)
Mila Adams moved to Utah in May with her husband and toddler son to be closer to family, but they didn’t expect to be living with her husband’s parents nearly […]
How the Treasury Market Predicts and Influence Interest Rates
The market for U.S. government bonds, called the Treasury market, offers predictions on the path for interest rates and the economy. Read More
US Mortgage Rates Soar Past 7% for the First Time Since 2002
The average rate on 30-year mortgages — the most popular kind among Americans — rose to the highest level since 2002, tracking the Federal Reserve’s aggressive campaign of rate increases. […]
U.K. Borrowers React to Soaring Interest Rates in Mortgage Market
LOUGHTON, England — After nearly two decades of renting in one of the world’s most expensive cities, the Szostek family began the week almost certain that they would finally own […]