The core index, one that strips volatile food and energy costs and is used by the Fed in setting interest rates, rose 0.2% in December and 2.8% annually, unchanged from November.

On Wednesday Jan. 29, the Federal Reserve concluded its first meeting ... which haven't been giving mortgage lenders much room to lower rates. The National Association of Realtors’ latest numbers on ...

The average 30-year mortgage rate was 6.95% this week compared with 6.96% a week earlier, according to Freddie Mac data.

The average rate remains just below 7%, little relief for prospective home shoppers looking ahead to the spring homebuying ...

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased for the second week in a row, but remains just below 7%, little ...

Mortgage rates declined by one basis point this week, not enough to change the equation to bring consumers back into the housing market, Freddie Mac said.

Selling your house? You might be in for a long wait. Mortgage rates remained elevated throughout January, which has sapped ...

Mortgage rates actually increased and have remained a major hurdle for prospective home buyers. Car loans haven't downshifted much, and credit-card annual percentage rates, or APRs, have only crept ...

Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes fell in December to snap a four-month streak of increases, with particularly sharp declines in the pricier Northeast and West regions as higher mortgage ...

President Trump wants to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A survey shows nearly half of investors expect it by 2028.

The average interest rate on new cars fell to 6.8% in the fourth quarter of 2024 - when the Fed first started cutting rates - from 7.4% a year earlier, according to data from the car-buying site ...

A judge's ruling temporarily blocked the Trump administration's order from going into effect, but confusion lingers about how ...