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The US housing market’s stagnation has gotten even worse

The US housing market’s stagnation has gotten even worse

Source: Quartz--- The meteoric rise of mortgage rates has zipped past another milestone this year. For the first time since April 2002, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) topped 7% this week, according to data from Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie...

The Reason Home Prices Are Finally Dropping

The Reason Home Prices Are Finally Dropping

Source: Slate --- This article is from Full Stack Economics, a newsletter about the economy, technology, and public policy. In March 2021, a woman in the D.C. area put her house on the market and got 88 bids—including 76 all-cash offers and 15 from people who hadn’t...

Paying Cash for Your Home Is a Bad Idea for These 4 Reasons

Paying Cash for Your Home Is a Bad Idea for These 4 Reasons

Source: The Motley Fool --- After rock-bottom interest rates during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortgage chickens have finally come home to roost. In October 2021, the average U.S. mortgage interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was just...

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