Affordability continues to improve in 2026, with home-price growth flattening and mortgage rates nearing 6%. Processing Content Early January declines in rates helped push affordability to a four-year high, as the monthly principal and interest payment needed to purchase the average-priced home dropped 7%, or $164, year over year to $2,091, reducing the share of […]
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A Two Harbors Investment shareholder is suing the REIT to halt its deal with United Wholesale Mortgage, raising accusations around financial disclosures and board members’ stock sales. Processing Content Michael Koblentz also named Two President and CEO William Greenberg and the company’s board of directors as defendants in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in an Illinois
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I was amazed that the last Housing Market Tracker didn’t show much drama from the epic late-January snowstorm that impacted much of the U.S., but today’s tracker data got hit for sure. However, the housing market will be back in full force again soon. Last week, inventory declined, new listings data was negative year over
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