Why First-Time Home Buyers Are Scarce: It’s the Monthly Payment
First-time home buyers are near a record low. The typical home costs what it did in 2021, but its monthly payment is far higher. How past squeezes ended.
Interest Rates & Housing
What Federal Reserve decisions and mortgage rates mean for your loan, your home purchase and your savings, measured against every rate cycle and housing squeeze since the 1970s and 1980s.
Fed Rate Hikes Are Back. What the Last Six Did to Mortgage Rates
The Fed turned from cuts to hikes in September. We checked the six times that happened since 1990: mortgage rates, stocks and jobs a year later.