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Most are sold into the secondary market, which increases liquidity and makes it easier to get a mortgage at a lower interest rate.

We jumped into the Marketplace time machine to ask some experts how things look from next December.

There’s research that shows when the left-most digit of a number changes, we tend to give the change more weight.

New data from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies shows that a growing number of people in their 60s, 70s and 80s still have mortgage debt, and they’re carrying more of it than than previous generations did.

Despite the world going digital, homebuying is still a highly analog process. James Rodriquez of Insider discusses the quest for a superapp.

A lot of homebuilders are working with lenders to offer lower mortgage rates — or they’re offering other incentives like money towards closing costs.

And yet banks are loaning out more money than a year ago.

Mortgage rates are still high, but some real estate agents have been citing an old refrain: “You can always refinance.” Except, others say, when you can’t

Mortgage applications rose last week, thanks in part to a dip in mortgage rates, according to a new report. But credit availability has been falling.

It’s called the wealth effect: Household spending decisions tend to be influenced by the ups and downs of asset prices.