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30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.75% for the week ending July 25, down from 3.81% in the previous week and 4.45% a year ago, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, KB Home, PulteGroup, Inc., Financial stocks n...

Surging prices are a demand killer, but real estate industry laments the medicine didn't work. The relentlessness of falling home sales is starting to baffle the real estate industry that had expected plunging mortgage rates to fire up sales: Across the US, sales of "existing homes" (previ...

By Robert Hughes Sales of existing homes fell 1.7 percent in June to a 5.27-million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are down 2.2 percent from a year ago and appear to be trending roughly flat in the 5,000 to 5,500 range (see chart). Sales declined in the two larger regions but rose ...

A bigger-than-expected drop in June existing home sales pulls down homebuilder stocks, with PulteGroup ( PHM -6.5% ) and Hovnanian ( HOV -6.6% ) taking the biggest hits. More news on: PulteGroup, Inc., Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., D.R. Horton, Inc., News on the U.S. economy, Financia...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.81% for the week ending July 18, 2019, up from 3.75% in the prior week and vs. 4.52% at this time a year ago, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Markets Survey. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, iShares...

Homebuilder sentiment for July saw a modest bounce, rising from 64 up to 65 compared to expectations for a reading of 64. While sentiment has seen a nice improvement from its late 2018 low, builders are nowhere near as optimistic right now as they were right before the GOP tax bill - which lim...

Real Estate Weekly Review Another week, another record high. Each of the three major US equity indexes climbed to new record highs on the week, with the S&P 500 ( SPY ) breaching 3,000 for the first time ever on a busy week of inflation data and Fed Chair Powell's testimony to Congress. ...

I wanted to revisit one graph, because I think it tells the story so well about what's happening in many US cities while lending standards are tight. In the process, I realized that I should have adjusted for inflation, and in the process of doing that, I realized I had a minor excel workshe...

The ETRACS 2x Leveraged ETN Snapshot presents the latest updates on the news, yields, performance and other data for the ETRACS 2x ETNs, an extremely popular suite of high-yielding vehicles for income investors. This consolidated report is designed to help members evaluate at a glance which ...

REIT Rankings: Timber REITs In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We rank REITs within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit ...