Want better affordability? Lower house prices certainly helps, and this article states that more than half of homes in the United States have fallen in price in the last year. Forget interest rates: ...

Thanksgiving weeks can be weird for mortgage rates. This has to do with the fact that rates are dictated by the bond market and the bond market depends on real live people who can actually be out of ...

Remember to bring up politics at Thanksgiving to save some money on Christmas presents.” “What do tornadoes and Tennessee divorces have in common? Someone's going to lose a mobile home.” (My father’s ...

Mortgage applications moved lower last week as rates continued drifting higher for a third straight week. MBA’s Weekly ...

Builder confidence levels are still kicking the same sad little can down the road, just with slightly more enthusiasm. The ...

Yesterday, we discussed the fact that mortgage rates were heading into Thursday with a disadvantage (for most lenders, anyway ...

It was a complicated day for mortgage rates.  Officially, at the time of this article, the average top tier 30yr fixed rate ...

It's shaping up to be a "no whammies" sort of morning for the bond market.  There's no denying that the jobs report was a ...

With economic data being the most consistent source of motivation for rates, the market has been eager for it to return with ...

It was a pretty straightforward overnight session with a very high degree of correlation between bond yields and stock prices ...

Fed Minutes Push Yields Higher As expected, the recent raft of hawkish Fed speakers foreshadowed (whether intentionally or ...

The steaks were pretty high.” The steaks, uh, stakes, are high when changes to our housing finance system occur, or actions are taken that are negatively impact borrowers or reputations. In a typical ...