[ad_1] Washington, DC CNN — Mortgage rates inched up again last week, after a slight increase the week before interrupted six straight weeks of falling rates. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.48% in the week ending January 5, up from 6.42% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. A year …
Read More »Sales of Manhattan apartments nosedived at the end of 2022
[ad_1] Washington, DC CNN — It is almost as if the wild turns in the Manhattan real estate market during the pandemic didn’t happen. Almost. The frenzy to buy apartments in Manhattan took off in 2021 as the city bounced back from the worst of the pandemic. But it nosedived …
Read More »Premarket stocks: The Grinch comes for retailers
[ad_1] A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. New York CNN — Weaker-than-expected retail sales in November pummeled market sentiment …
Read More »Here’s how to afford to buy your first home with a lower down payment
[ad_1] The Central Business District of Pittsburgh J. Altdorfer Photography | Getty Images After bidding wars during the pandemic, demand for home purchases has fallen amid higher mortgage interest rates. That dynamic has made some markets are more attractive for first-time home buyers for 2023, according to a Zillow report …
Read More »First-time homebuyers are being shut out of the market like never before
[ad_1] If you bought your first home during the past year, consider yourself one of the fortunate few. Skyrocketing home prices and climbing interest rates pushed the share of first-time homebuyers to an all-time low, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors. And those first-time buyers …
Read More »New home sales bounce back in August
[ad_1] New home sales bounced back in August despite high prices and rising mortgage rates that have pushed some buyers away. Sales of newly constructed homes jumped 28.8% in August from July and were down just 0.1% from a year ago, according to a joint report from the US Department …
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