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More than 37,000 Fannie and Freddie mortgages were in forbearance at the end of June
More than 37,000 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages, 37,283 loans, remained in an active forbearance plan at the end of June, the Federal Housing...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 48,439 foreclosure prevention actions in the second quarter, FHFA reports
A Federal Housing Finance Agency report posted September 24 puts the number of foreclosure prevention actions Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed in the second...
New-home sales jumped 6.4% in August to a 684,000 annual pace, Census data show
U.S. homebuilders sold new houses at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 684,000 in August, a 6.4% jump from July that the Census Bureau reported...
Pending home sales rose 0.3 percent in August but ran 4.7 percent below a year earlier
Signed contracts on existing homes rose 0.3 percent in August from July, but the National Association of Realtors’ pending home sales index still ran 4.7...
Southern home prices barely moved in August, rising 0.7 percent to $366,500
Home costs across the South, the country’s largest housing market by sales volume, rose just 0.7 percent in August to a median of $366,500, the...
The Midwest’s median home price rose 3.3 percent to $340,400 in August, lowest of any region
A median-priced home in the Midwest cost $340,400 in August, a 3.3 percent increase from a year earlier and still the least expensive of the...
First-time buyers made up 30 percent of August home sales, up from 29 percent in July
First-time buyers accounted for 30 percent of existing-home sales in August, up from 29 percent in July and from 28 percent a year earlier, according...
Housing supply hit 4.9 months in August, the highest in over ten years
Unsold homes across the country equaled 4.9 months of supply in August, the highest level in over ten years, according to the National Association of...
Builders started single-family homes at a 918,000 pace in August, up 7.6 percent from July
Builders broke ground on single-family homes at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 918,000 in August, the Census Bureau reported Sept. 17, 2026, a 7.6...
Home completions plunged 27.1 percent from a year earlier in August, the Census Bureau says
Privately-owned housing completions fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,128,000 in August, down 27.1 percent from the 1,548,000 pace recorded a year earlier,...
Seagate shareholders can claim about $1.03 a share from a $175 million settlement by October 19
A $175 million securities settlement is now open for claims from investors who held Seagate Technology stock while the company was concealing an export-law problem...
Home prices are flattening as buyers wait out 7% mortgage rates
U.S. home values rose just 1.1% over the past year, according to Zillow’s July Market Report, the kind of near-flat reading that shows how thoroughly...
New Jersey gives property-tax filers until September 15 to change bank details before automatic payments
New Jersey is automatically filing many 2025 ANCHOR property-tax relief applications, but that convenience comes with a short banking-information clock. For recipients who received last...
HUD keeps a second, lower set of rent numbers, and tells housing agencies how to ask for them
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The 30-year mortgage rate climbed to 6.71%, its highest in over a year, and it is inching toward 7%
The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage climbed to 6.71% for the week ending September 3, its highest level in more than a year...
The typical existing home sold for about $434,100 in July, a 37th straight month of gains
The median price of an existing home sold in July was $434,100, the National Association of Realtors reported, up 2.0% from $425,700 a year earlier...
Home sellers are cutting prices at the fastest pace of 2026 as demand cools and rates near a one-year high
Home sellers cut asking prices on 20.4% of active listings in August, according to Realtor.com’s latest housing report, the highest monthly share so far in...
A homestead exemption shields part of a home’s value from creditors and can cut property tax
The phrase “homestead exemption” quietly covers two separate legal protections that happen to share a name and a common purpose: keeping more of a primary...
A lady bird deed keeps a home out of probate while the owner keeps full control
A homeowner who wants a house to pass to an heir without a court proceeding, but doesn’t want to give up any say over that...
Home asking prices fell about 2.5% from a year ago, the steepest annual drop since 2017
The typical home listed for sale in July carried an asking price about 2.4% below where it stood a year earlier, according to Realtor.com’s national...