Mortgage rates topped 7% this week, a key psychological threshold, in a sign of the US housing market’s unrelenting ...

Dec. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Freddie Mac (OTCQB ... rental income growth, property price growth and mortgage rates to provide a single Index that measures multifamily market investment ...

“The continued strength of the economy has put upward pressure on mortgage rates, and along with high home prices, continues to impact housing affordability,” Freddie Mac’s chief economist ...

Let’s divide 49 years of data into two, using the 30-year fixed mortgage rate tracked by Freddie Mac ... When rates were down, the Consumer Price Index was rising 3% a year.

Freddie Mac's data ... about these dynamics, home prices typically rise faster than inflation, which is one reason they were excluded from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) calculation in 1983.