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...In reality, higher rates have helped property prices, because of the unique characteristics of the American mortgage market....
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...The number of owner-occupiers with a mortgage has fallen by 2mn since 2002 and sits at levels last seen in the 1980s, according to Building Society Association research....
...Freddie will only buy the second mortgages of borrowers that it already has a first mortgage with, and the combined loan-to-value of both the first and the second mortgage cannot exceed 80 per cent of the...
...The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.06 per cent in the week ending February 16, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday....
...“There’s quite a lot of data showing that advance fee fraud is going up,” said Jason Zirkle, training director at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners....
...Yet, median home prices hit a record high of $389,800. Neither has stopped share prices of US mortgage lenders from regaining favour among investors....
...Many of the more newsworthy collapses, however, have been brought about by new investors leveraging the real estate of department stores....
...US mortgage applications for home purchases rose by the most in a year in January, according to analysis by Capital Economics of data from the US Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday....
...The average 30-year mortgage has since fallen from highs of more than 7 per cent last autumn and was 6.75 per cent last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association....
...Net mortgage approvals rose to 61,300 in March from 60,500 in February, the highest number since September 2022, the Bank of England said....
...Net mortgage approvals rose to 61,300 last month from 60,500 in February, the Bank of England said on Tuesday....
...The pending home sales index — covering signed contracts for homes where transactions have not yet closed — increased 3.4 per cent in March to a reading of 78.2, the National Association of Realtors said...
...Others are following Scottish Mortgage’s example. Industry buybacks hit a record £3.6bn last year, according to the Association of Investment Companies....
...How did the word “capitalism” arise? If you ask most investors that question today, they might mutter about markets, commerce and Adam Smith — or Karl Marx....
...Sales of previously built homes in the US declined in March, as persistently high mortgage rates continue to constrain buying activity....
...The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage ended 2023 at 6.76 per cent, down from the 7.9 per cent hit in October, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday....
...Slumbering investors saw a much better performance. The sticker price of making a trade has plummeted since then, of course. Alas, the cost of making a badly timed trade is as high as ever....
...Tracker mortgages, however, which follow the Bank of England’s base rate, are falling out of favour....
...The average 30-year mortgage rate fell to 6.83 per cent last week, below 7 per cent for the first time since July, the Mortgage Bankers Association of America said on Wednesday....
...The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose to a reading of 37, up from 34 in October, marking the first increase in four months....
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