As you may have gleaned from our coverage of new home sales, construction, builder confidence, and mortgage apps recently, ...

Starting in early October, mortgage rates experienced significant volatility, meaning the average day over day change was ...

Getting Back to Normal, For a Few Days Anyway After a decidedly abnormal 6 weeks beginning in early October, bonds began to ...

The bond market has been forced to take the victories that are within reach.  As November winds down, the best victory we ...

Historically low interest rates may not have guaranteed historically high levels of housing activity, but exceptionally high ...

They may not be low.  In fact, they may still be a lot higher than you want, but at least they haven't been too volatility ...

Want a house for a dollar? Italy has them… figure out the impact on comps for appraisals! To the best of my knowledge, my cat Myrtle never lived in Italy before she was adopted, or even traveled there ...

It's been a bit of a chaotic morning so far, but in a narrow enough range to make it relatively boring in the bigger picture.

Another Flat Day, This Time With Data While it would be an overstatement to say that bonds have fully outgrown the phase of ...

First thing's first, mortgage applications increased last week, both for purchases and refinances! It was the first ...

The most common interval for scheduled economic data is "monthly."  That means that things like inflation, sentiment, job ...

I thought swimming with dolphins was expensive until I went swimming with sharks. It cost me an arm and a leg.” Through the ...