For the last two years, the housing market has been characterized by fast-rising home prices and surging interest rates, but today's homebuying conditions are far different from the real estate landscape preceding the Great Recession
After posting strong gains in a red-hot mid-pandemic market, rent growth appears to be cooling at the close of 2022, and measures of inflation could follow closely behind
The Fed is expected to reduce its interest rate increases to half of a percentage point in December, though tighter monetary policy will continue until inflation ebbs
Mortgage rates fell for the third straight week over the Thanksgiving holiday, but despite a glimmer of price relief for borrowers, refinance demand followed a similar trajectory
A flood of new listings at the start of 2023 could cause home prices to plunge, but the pace of an ongoing market correction will be determined by the Fed's revised monetary policy