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“Investors” accounted for 30.2% of home purchases in 2025, nearly double their share at the start of the #pandemic, according to data from Cotality. A report from Realtor.com found the change wasn’t because of a surge of investor activity, but rather a pullback from traditional buyers who could no longer afford today’s prices.
#WealthDivide #inequity #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #housing #Trump #trumpcession #recession
The strain in the #housing market has become a key political issue, & #Trump has raised a number of [impractical] ideas for how to address the costs — like introducing 50-year mortgages, barring Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes & directing Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed bonds. His admin has yet to follow through on most of them.
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#Home buyers have already been struggling with high #prices, as well as rising #insurance & #property #taxes. #MortgageRates were one source of relief, having fallen from much higher levels in recent years. Even at 6.11, rates are well below their recent peak of 7.8% in October 2023, which was the highest level in decades as the #economy was recovering from the #pandemic. Back then the yield on the 10-year Treasury note was approaching 5%.
When the #US & #Israel attacked #Iran, setting off an #energy crisis & raising new #inflation concerns in #FinancialMarkets. The result has been a jump in the yield on government bonds, & falling expectations for #InterestRate cuts later this year. The yield on the 10-year #Treasury note, which acts as a broad reference interest rate that underpins the US #mortgage market, climbed to 4.25% Thursday, up from below 4% before the war began.
#MortgageRates Rise as #Iran #War Ripples Through #FinancialMarkets
#Mortgage are climbing again as new #inflation concerns have roiled financial #markets.
The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate in the #US rose to 6.11%, the mortgage-financing giant Freddie Mac said Thursday, the second week in a row that rates have risen.
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nytimes.com/2026/03/12/busines…
“All the key measures are moving in the wrong direction.”
Economic growth was much slower at the end of 2025 than data first showed & inflationary pressures persisted at the start of this year, a troubling snapshot of an #economy on unsteady footing before #war with #Iran upended #oil & #FinancialMarkets.
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nytimes.com/2026/03/13/busines…