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- Benzinga
Homebuyers Get Mixed News From Freddie Mac And The Federal Reserve
Prospective homebuyers got good news when Freddie Mac announced a downward adjustment to anticipated home price increases for 2024 and 2025. The revision comes just over a month after Freddie Mac predicted increases of 2.5% for 2024 and 2.1% for 2025. The mortgage lender predicts that the increase for 2024 and 2025 will be closer to 0.5%. Considering that most prospective homebuyers were already struggling with high prices and a lack of inventory, any news about a slowdown in price increases cou
- Fortune
$3 trillion could be injected into the U.S. economy without any federal spending by tweaking this corner of the mortgage market, ‘Oracle of Wall Street’ says
"Rarely have I seen such a true win-win scenario for the government, Wall Street and the U.S. consumer."
- Barrons.com
Zillow Is Treading Carefully. Wall Street Isn’t Worried.
Zillow Group says the tough housing market and rising mortgage rates led to its cautious outlook. Of the 28 analysts with Zillow class C ratings tracked by FactSet half rate the shares Buy or Buy-equivalent. Mortgage rates continue to climb as the spring home buying season reaches its peak period.
