“How can you know what your financial situation is going to look like in a month?” said one expert.

The consensus is yes, but it’ll depend on when you buy, the types of loans you can procure and your career stability.

Refi applications shot up ahead of the Fed’s latest rate cut. With more cuts to come, should you wait or act now?

With mortgage rates below 6.5%, lots of recent buyers are deciding to refinance. But there hasn’t been a similar increase in prospective buyers entering the market.

The number of households that are homeowners in the U.S. has fallen, ever so slightly, by 0.1% year on year. Still, today’s homeownership rate of 65% is par for the course. 

It depends what region they work in, but overall they're finding ways to help buyers navigate a market full of expensive homes, high interest rates and, in some cases, soaring insurance costs.

“I want a house so badly,” said Ashley Ayala of Texas. “But for work, I travel three weeks out of the month... It is very hard for me to justify the largest purchase of my life when I am only home one week a month.”

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has a number of advantages for homeowners and investors. But it wasn’t always the norm.

Median property taxes in the U.S. rose by an average of more than 10% between 2021 and 2023, according to an analysis by LendingTree. More than half of homeowners with a mortgage are paying more than $3,000 a year.

More home sellers are having to sweeten the deal, with things like mortgage rate buy downs, or shelling out to pay for home repairs.