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Home Builders Bullish for Fifth Straight Month

The nation’s once-beleaguered home builders are more confident than they have been in six years. A surge in new orders for homes, especially among the big public builders, pushed builder sentiment on an industry survey up three points to the … Continue reading

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How Does the Fed Help My House, My Mortgage?

For those of you who expected to wake up to a 30-year fixed rate mortgage below 3 percent, you may as well go back to sleep. Yes, rates moved down, 0.125 percent, according to several sources, but that was not … Continue reading

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Will Fed’s Mortgage Buying Juice the Housing Recovery?

Home prices are stabilizing, and new construction is bouncing back, but apparently the U.S. Federal Reserve isn’t buying a bullish housing recovery.  Its announcement Thursday that it would buy up to $40 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities every month, with … Continue reading

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Will Fed’s Mortgage Buying Juice the Housing Recovery?

Home prices are stabilizing, and new construction is bouncing back, but apparently the U.S. Federal Reserve isn’t buying a bullish housing recovery.  Its announcement Thursday that it would buy up to $40 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities every month, with … Continue reading

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Will Fed’s Mortgage Buying Juice the Housing Recovery?

Home prices are stabilizing, and new construction is bouncing back, but apparently the U.S. Federal Reserve isn’t buying a bullish housing recovery.  Its announcement Thursday that it would buy up to $40 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities every month, with … Continue reading

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