Housing Market
All Reports
September 11, 2015
If it gets more expensive to borrow, will people drop out of the housing market? Not likely. Rising mortgage rates -- or the fear of them -- barely registered in a recent Redfin survey of homebuyers. Fewer than 5 percent listed rising mortgage rates as their top concern, ranking it well below affordability.
September 10, 2015
The most important Fed meeting of all time is just a week away. As we await the central bank's verdict on whether to raise interest rates, here's what's happening with mortgages: Nothing. For the seventh week, the average cost of a 30-year loan is below 4 percent.
September 4, 2015
Call it a jobs Rorschach Test. The unemployment rate hit a seven-year low and the economy is adding work at a pretty decent clip. Great! But we got fewer jobs than economists expected and more adults are dropping out of the workforce.
September 3, 2015
It's Super Bowl preseason -- the Fed Super Bowl -- and players from the Hawks and Doves are running their drills. Rate Watch is counting down to Sept. 17, when we'll get the final score on whether the central bank will raise interest rates. Meanwhile, the cost of a 30-year, fixed-rate home loan ticked up last week to 3.89 percent.
August 31, 2015
Whee! August has never been so thrilling. This week, we'll ride the financial roller-coaster into Friday, when we get the most important jobs report of all time. Fortunately, the sun is shining somewhere, Google says. In Florida, this mansion ain't big enough for the both of us! Serena and Venus are getting their own crash pads.
