Americans looking to buy a newly built home this spring are likely to get a helping hand with their mortgage rate and other costs.

Freddie Mac delivered $411 billion of liquidity into the U.S. housing finance system, helping 1.6 million families buy, refinance, or rent a home, while Fannie Mae reported $381 billion in liquidity, ...

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Rewinding further, the 30-year average notched a high 7.37% last spring, so today's rates are significantly improved vs. 10 months ago. They're also almost 1.2 percentage points cheaper than the ...

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KBW analyst Bose George maintained a Sell rating on Freddie Mac (FMCC – Research Report) today and set a price target of $4.50. The company’s ...

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased for the fourth week in a row, an encouraging sign for prospective home shoppers as the spring homebuying season gets underway.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased for the fourth week in a row, an encouraging sign for prospective ...

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Seattle’s WaFd Bank, which bought Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Savings a year ago, now is getting out of mortgage lending to ...