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Redfin analysts weigh a number of variables playing into potential homebuyers’ decision-making process and reveal why now may be the best time to pursue the American dream of homeownership.

Freddie Mac reports a second week-over-week slide in the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, as markets adjust to the Fed’s second consecutive pause in rate hikes. Here are the factors a Freddie Mac economist says are allowing the housing market to “remain stagnant.”

Mortgage rates fell for the second consecutive week, spurring a jump in mortgage apps at the outset of the spring homebuying season.

Rates fell week-over-week as the Russian-Ukrainian crisis has brought with it uncertainty in the housing finance sector.