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Oregon takes late senior property-tax deferral applications through December 1
Oregon homeowners who missed the April 15 filing date for the state’s property-tax deferral program can still apply, but only until December 1. The Oregon...
Freddie Mac sold 1,968 seriously delinquent mortgages with about $428 million in unpaid balances to investors, with the sales set to settle in December
Freddie Mac has sold 1,968 seriously delinquent mortgages whose borrowers were between 15 and 21 months behind on average, depending on the pool, in an...
Florida homeowners who establish residency after December 31 would start with a $50,000 homestead exemption for four years under Amendment 3
Florida homeowners who establish residency on or after January 1, 2027 would start with a $50,000 homestead exemption on non-school property taxes if voters approve...
Pinellas County’s property appraiser estimates Florida’s Amendment 3 could save a homesteader about $1,203 in 2027 and $2,423 in 2028
Pinellas County’s property appraiser estimates that a homeowner who receives the full exemption would save about $1,203 in 2027 and $2,423 in 2028 if Florida...
Buyers applied for a median $2,162 monthly mortgage payment in August, MBA says
Home buyers who applied for a mortgage in August asked for a median monthly payment of $2,162, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported September 24, down...
The national mortgage delinquency rate rose to 3.53 percent in August, ICE says
A mortgage delinquency rate of 3.53 percent sounds like a warning, but ICE says the August reading is mostly the calendar working itself out. Intercontinental...
Fed officials said mortgage rates rose more than 10-year Treasury yields and home-purchase borrowing stayed depressed, minutes released October 7 show
Residential mortgage rates rose a bit more than 10-year Treasury yields, and borrowing for home purchases remained depressed, according to minutes of the Federal Reserve’s...
Foreclosure starts ran 29 percent above a year earlier in August, and 89,000 more homes are in active foreclosure than last year, ICE data show
Lenders began foreclosure on far more homes in August than they did a year earlier, even though the pace eased from July. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE),...
Mortgage refinance applications fell 8 percent in a week to their lowest level since 2025, and the MBA says very few homeowners have an incentive to refinance
“Very few homeowners have an incentive to refinance at these rates,” Joel Kan, deputy chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association, said in the group’s...
The average 30-year mortgage rate in the Mortgage Bankers Association survey hit 7.49 percent, its highest in almost three years, as applications fell
The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage reached 7.49 percent in the week ending October 2, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s weekly survey,...
FHA will accept FICO Score 10T, which FICO says counts rental payments and trended credit data, on forward mortgages with case numbers assigned from January 1, 2027
The Federal Housing Administration will accept FICO Score 10T on mortgages whose case numbers are assigned on or after January 1, 2027. FICO announced on...
Zillow says a median-income household would need to spend 34.3 percent of its income on a typical mortgage payment
A household earning the median income would need to spend 34.3 percent of that income on the monthly payment for a typical U.S. home, according...
Zillow puts the typical U.S. rent at $1,932 in September
Zillow’s September report puts the typical U.S. rent at $1,932, up 2.7 percent from a year earlier and the biggest annual gain since April 2025....
Realtor.com counted 1,161,615 active home listings in September, up 5.4 percent
Realtor.com counted 1,161,615 homes actively for sale across the country in September, 5.4 percent more than a year earlier, and the gap between today’s inventory...
Realtor.com says the median U.S. asking price fell to $419,250 in September, while 20.8 percent of listings had price cuts, the most for a September since 2018
The median asking price for a home in the United States fell to $419,250 in September, down 1.2 percent from August and 1.4 percent from...
Freddie Mac’s 15-year fixed mortgage averaged 6.60 percent on October 1
Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey put the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage at an average of 6.60 percent in its October 1 release, up from 6.42...
HUD’s fair market rents took effect October 1, and housing agencies that requested a reevaluation have until January 8 to submit survey data to get a local figure reconsidered
The fiscal year 2027 fair market rents that HUD uses to set payment standards in the Housing Choice Voucher program took effect October 1, 2026,...
Fannie Mae began pricing a loan the same whether the lender pulled Classic FICO or VantageScore 4.0 on October 1
Fannie Mae’s pricing for mortgages delivered with a VantageScore 4.0 credit score stopped being a separate matter on October 1, 2026, when loans scored that...
Forty landlords, and not RealPage itself, agreed to the $359,925,000 fund renters can claim from until January 29, 2027
Forty landlords and property managers, including Greystar Management Services, Equity Residential and Camden Property Trust, appear on the settlement administrator’s list of defendants behind a...
Fannie Mae sets standard rules from December 1 for an investment property bought within 45 days of the home being financed
Fannie Mae has written one set of rules for a borrower who bought another investment property within 45 days of the home being financed, and...