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A new analysis by Redfin found that home sales are being canceled at the highest rate recorded since the onset of the pandemic.

Current Senior Advisor to the Cato Institute joins eMortgage technology solutions provider’s Advisory Board to drive change, and propel the company and industry forward.

Fixed-rate mortgages took a 0.40% dip this week on the heels of recent volatility of the 10-year Treasury yield.

Ongoing affordability challenges and low inventory are pushing mortgage application volume back down, after a near-month-long stretch of trending upward, according to the MBA.

Following a near-month-long 72-basis point rise, fixed-rate mortgages turned downward this week, signaling a potential reset in the housing market.

As fixed-rate mortgages crawl to the 6%-mark, mortgage application volume did rise slightly for the third consecutive week, but refinance volume trended in the opposite direction, falling 80% year-over-year.

Don Layton, former CEO of Freddie Mac and current Senior Industry Pellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, lays out four benchmarks against which to grade the GSEs as their plans are implemented.

Sales of new single‐family homes in May rose to 696,000, a 10.7% month-over-month rise of April’s recorded total of 629,000.

After a few weeks of decline, Freddie Mac reports mortgage rates hit a mark last seen in November 2008, having increased by more than two full percentage points since the beginning of 2022.

Hitting the highest rate recorded in 15 years, housing completions rose in May, a sign that construction bottlenecks may be easing.