U.S. mortgage rates rose for consecutive weeks in January of 2025. That's the word from Freddie Mac, which released its ...

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“Mortgage rates ticked up for the fifth consecutive week and crossed 7% for the first time since May of 2024,” says Sam ...

President Joe Biden will leave the White House with a strong economy, historic gains in the job market, a foundation for ...

Annual inflation has risen again for the third straight month, in a troubling sign for mortgage rates that are already ...

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released the monthly increase in the Consumer Price Index for […] ...

Inflation is still there, according to the December Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, with the annual rate marginally ...

We’re more than halfway through January already, the MBA has lowered its 2025 projection to $2.1 trillion, and there is a ...

The 30-year fixed rate mortgage topped 7% for the first time since last May, although late in the week, the 10-year Treasury ...

The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage reached 7.04% for the week ending January 16 — the highest level since May.

Mortgage rates topped 7% this week, a key psychological threshold, in a sign of the US housing market’s unrelenting ...

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