Spring is typically a busy time for home sales as the weather warms up and families prepare to move before a new school year.

Mortgage rates ticked down fractionally in the most recent week but remained near levels likely to stifle robust demand in the housing market.

Experts fear that the move, though it could help the government's budget woes, could disrupt the fragile U.S. mortgage market ...

As mortgage rates ... and it's putting pressure on prices — which could have a long-term impact on future homebuyers. Between January and February of this year, sales of existing homes rose ...

Mortgage rates are inching back toward 7%, highlighting the ongoing strain on US home buyers. The average rate on a standard, 30-year fixed mortgage was 6.86% in the week ending May 22, the highest ...

Mortgages have downshifted a bit from highs earlier in the week but continue to fluctuate with the latest economic news. Retail sales were ... three weeks of higher mortgage rates has cooled ...

High mortgage rates were blamed for the 5.9% drop in sales of existing U.S. homes in March. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.02 million existing home sales for March reported by the ...

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in March, a lackluster start to the spring homebuying season as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged home shoppers. Existing home ...

Home sales in March declined by the most since 2022 as stubbornly high mortgage rates and house prices kept buyers on the sidelines. Sales of previously owned homes in March dropped 5.9% from the ...

Yun noted the slow pace of existing-home sales, which has bedeviled the market for the past two years as homeowners remained in their homes due to high interest rates. “[T]he passage of time should ...

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In April, 30-year mortgage rates averaged around 6.71%, according to Zillow data. Average 15-year mortgage rates were 6.05%. Both of these rates are higher ... to the economic impact of the ...