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30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.45% for the week ending Feb. 27, down from 3.49% in the previous week and 4.35% at this time a year ago, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped...

By Robert Hughes Sales of existing homes fell 1.3 percent in January to a 5.46 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are still up 9.6 percent from a year ago and have fully recovered from a slowdown during 2018. However, sales are about even with levels from 2015 through 2017. S...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.49% for the week ending Feb. 20, up slightly from 3.47% in the previous week and 4.35% at this time a year ago, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF, iShares U.S. Home Co...

For the past several months, the news from the residential construction sector of the economy has been truly impressive, greatly exceeding forecasts. Only one caveat: building activity in the winter months is typically depressed, so seasonal adjustment factors are large, and that can turn a mo...

With January housing starts falling less than expected, iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF ( ITB +0.9% ) and SPDR Homebuilders ETF ( XHB +0.6% ) gain. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, SPDR Homebuilders ETF, TRI Pointe Group, Inc., Financial stocks news, Stocks on the...

The economic calendar is modest, and the trading week is holiday-shortened. The most important reports all relate to housing – prices, sales, and plans. With markets viewed as fully or excessively valued by many, there is some renewed interests in finding some attractive remaining secto...

Over the past four decades, I have traded at least one contract of almost every commodity on the futures market. However, I have never set foot near the lumber market. The volume and open interest, the total number of open long and short positions, in the lumber market have always been at leve...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 3.47% for the week ending Feb. 13, 2020, up 2 basis points from 3.45% in the previous week, according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, SPDR Homebuilders ETF, ETF Series Solutions - H...

The best time to size up the collapse in housing that I called almost two years ago will be when it is over - so we can visualize its full extent. Since it is now over by some measures, though not by others, this might be as good as we get for a while as a moment when we can pause to take a ...

Last quarter, I posted an update on homeownership rates at Mercatus . Recently updates for the fourth quarter came out from the Census Bureau. This is noisy data, so it's tough to get much out of quarter-to-quarter changes. You sort of need to wait for trends to be established. For what it'...