Source: Mortgage News Daily — The Federal Reserve concluded one of its 8 regularly scheduled meetings in 2022 today. As expected, they announced a rate hike of 0.75%. But if you still think that means mortgage rates moved higher, think again. In fact, if...
Source: Fortune — In the early ’80s, homebuilders mailed two-by-fours to then Fed Chair Paul Volcker in hope the central bank would relax its inflation fight that saw mortgage rates top 18%. Of course, the Fed didn’t back off until the 1981...
Source: Zillow — There were 590,000 new home sales nationwide in June (SAAR), down 8.1% from May and down 17.4% from June 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The median sales price of new houses sold in June was $402,400. The seasonally-adjusted estimate...
Source: npr — With prices rising at their fastest pace in a generation, the Federal Reserve is ratcheting up its fight against inflation. On Wednesday, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by an additional three-quarters of a percentage point. This is...
Source: World Property Journal — Based on CoreLogic’s latest Single-Family Rent Index, U.S. single-family annual rent growth remained at a record high in May 2022, posting a 13.9% increase from May 2021. This growth matched April’s increase,...
