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04/04/2025

It was a great week for fans of chaos, volatility, and low interest rates as all 3 were delivered in spades.

Housing Newsletter, April 4, 2025 It was a great week for fans of chaos, volatility, and low interest rates as all 3 were delivered in spades. Despite the presence of several big ticket economic reports, the catalyst was Wednesday afternoon's tariff announcement followed by the international respons

03/28/2025

Housing Newsletter, March 28, 2025 Heading into the week, market watchers knew (or thought they knew) that Friday's PCE inflation data had a chance to help or hurt interest rates more than any other economic report. When PCE came out higher than expected on Friday morning, market watchers knew (or t

03/25/2025

03/21/2025

Interest rates improved fairly steadily throughout the week with the biggest drop seen after Wednesday's Fed announcement. The Fed didn't cut rates, nor was any rational person expecting them to at this meeting. So why did rates move lower?

Housing Newsletter, March 21, 2025 Interest rates improved fairly steadily throughout the week with the biggest drop seen after Wednesday's Fed announcement. The Fed didn't cut rates, nor was any rational person expecting them to at this meeting.

02/08/2025

It would be more than fair to expect elevated market volatility based on the quantity and tone of recent news headlines. But the market remains more focused on the hard data.

This isn't to say that tariff-related headlines have gone unnoticed, only that they've had a...

Housing Newsletter, Feb. 7th, 2025 Despite Apparent Volatility, Rates Have Been Surprisingly Calm It would be more than fair to expect elevated market volatility based on the quantity and tone of recent news headlines.

01/31/2025

Housing Newsletter, January 31, 2024 Spoiler alert: no one really knows how tariffs are going to impact the market yet. Much is left to be decided, and the outcomes can vary depending on the details.

01/24/2025

Housing Newsletter, January 24, 2025 It turned out to be an intensely boring week for mortgage rates. The average lender stayed right in line with last week until moving slightly higher on Thursday and slightly lower on Friday.

01/18/2025

Housing Newsletter, January 17, 2025 Last week's big to-do was the jobs report, which sent rates sharply higher. This week's inflation data had a chance to add fuel to that fire or put it out.

01/10/2025

Housing Newsletter, January 10, 2025 Mortgage rates weren't having a great week in the first place. As of Wednesday, the average lender was already up to the highest levels since June 2024.

01/03/2025

Housing Newsletter, January 3, 2025 Mortgage Rates' Holiday Break Ends With Next Week's Economic Data Even as most of the world has spent the past two days thinking or saying "I can't believe it's 2025 already," mortgage rates won't get back from vacation until next week. They managed to make it thr

12/27/2024

Housing Newsletter, December 27, 2024 "So long 2024. Don't let the door hit ya!" Or.