Mortgage rates typically fall during a recession. Bad news for the economy is often good news for mortgage rates. To repeat ...

You can also lower the offered rate if you buy discount points, which are also known as mortgage points. A point typically costs 1% of the loan amount and can reduce the interest rate by 0.25 ...

The developer has a lot going for it, but the market has cottoned on and the share price may have reached the end of the road ...

For example, if you bought a foreclosure and had to fix a lot of broken stuff, the home is worth more after you fix those ...

The current median interest rate is 6.99% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and 6.25% for a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage ...

Mortgage rates fell slightly in the week ending Nov. 14, marking the first time weekly rates have gone down since September.

Mortgage rates on a 30-year home loan have fluctuated throughout the year, reaching a peak of 7.22 percent in May. In late ...

Despite its recent upward move, the average rate on a 30-year mortgage is still down from 7.22 percent in May, its peak so ...

After climbing an eighth of a point the previous day, rates on 30-year mortgages held steady Wednesday. But 15-year and jumbo 30-year rates eased lower.

When the Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point in September, it wasn't a ...

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