mortgage

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Homeownership has long been many Americans’ primary strategy for generating long-term wealth, both because home values generally increase over time and because paying down a mortgage is a way of forcing people to save.

From The Wall Street Journal

“And with mortgage rates steady around 6.1% for several weeks now, everything is moving in the right direction for improving housing affordability heading into spring,” he added.

From MarketWatch

Yet for people who bought homes in the past three years, paying much higher prices and steeper mortgage rates, delinquencies have been picking up, Taiano noted.

From MarketWatch

But the long-term payoff — particularly for something like qualifying for a mortgage — is less certain, and renters would need to weigh the fee against potential interest savings in their specific situation.

From MarketWatch

The news, combined with the likelihood that mortgage rates could fall following a drop in the rate of inflation for January, sent the iShares U.S.

From Barron's