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Monthly housing payments have reached a record-high of $2,614, as mortgage rates climbed to 7.12%, pricing out many homebuyers with tight budgets, according to Redfin.

According to a new report from Redfin, while the typical U.S. home costs an estimated 25% more per month to own than rent, homebuying is only more affordable than renting in Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Houston.

"Although a lot of homebuyers have acclimated to rates in the 6% range and many are finding ways to lower their monthly payments, like using a 2-1 buydown, high rates are handcuffing potential sellers,” said Redfin Deputy Chief Economist Taylor Marr.

"In April, we continued to see rising rent prices and a moderating growth rate. This is promising news for renters, suggesting that the pandemic peaks are behind us, and that the challenging affordability picture may begin to improve," said Realtor.com Chief Economist Danielle Hale.

While spring is typically a hot homebuying season, new listings of homes for sale dropped 19% year-over-year in May, according to a new report from Redfin, leaving homebuyers circling an even smaller pool of listings.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the availability of new funding from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda, making HUD-assisted multifamily housing more energy efficient by cutting greenhouse gas emissions and improving climate resiliency.

Although a national debt default is unlikely, new scenario projections from Zillow reveal home sales would decrease sharply. While home values would not lose much ground, a surge in mortgage rates would do further damage to nationwide housing affordability.

According to a new study from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, research highlighted how home values in majority-white neighborhoods have risen much faster than those in neighborhoods of color, as common trends in lower-income neighborhoods such as gentrification and displacement persist.

As nearly 18 million owner-occupied homes throughout the U.S. are now housing-cost-burdened, a new study from LendingTree revealed the share of households headed by single mothers are much more likely to overspend on housing costs than others.

According to a new report from National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, the slight drop in the NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index was driven by a modest decline in senior home equity from a peak of $12.42 trillion in Q3 2022 to $12.39 trillion in Q4 2022.