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Interest rates on home loans, often tracked via the average 30-year fixed rate, which move with Treasury yields and Fed policy and shape housing affordability.
Berkshire under Greg Abel paid $6.8 billion in equity for Taylor Morrison, then lifted its Lennar stake 94% in the third quarter, ResiClub calculates. Abel told CNBC he does not envision a quick housing recovery, and the payoff is years away.
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TUC analysis of official figures says UK households have paid an extra £13,961 on bills since 2021, or £2,792 a year. Almost two-thirds of it is mortgage cost, so the figure measures borrowers more closely than it measures households in general.
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US existing-home sales rose 1.5% in September to a 3.99 million annual pace, the National Association of Realtors said, but fell 2.2% from a year earlier. Many of those deals were signed at 30-year rates of 6.43% to 6.69%, below last week's 7.4%.
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Pimco's Dan Ivascyn calls a 6% 10-year Treasury yield feasible after the benchmark touched a 24-year high of 5.34%. Hedging by holders of AI and mortgage bonds adds to the selling, so well-bid auctions do little for borrowers.
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Yields on 1- to 7-year Treasuries moved as much as 26 basis points in four days, and the short end is now priced for hikes. That changes the base case for anyone financing 2026.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says oil could settle at $40-50 a barrel once the Iran war ends, a date he says he does not know. Without that date, investors get a direction for oil, yields and mortgage rates and have to price the wait themselves.
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Mortgage Bankers Association data put the 30-year fixed rate at 7.49%, its highest since November 2023, with purchase applications down 15% on the year. Buyers are retreating at current prices, and homeowners who want cash have moved to home-equity lines.
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London house prices fell 2.2% in the year to September, the Lloyds index shows, while the UK average held flat. For employers with staff in the south, cheaper homes now come with dearer mortgages, so pay and housing decisions depend on the regional figures.
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Redfin says 21.1% of US sellers cut asking prices in the four weeks to Sept. 20, a record for the time of year. Higher mortgage rates leave financed buyers stretched, so the leverage sits mostly with buyers who can close in cash.
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Buyers pulled the 10-year Treasury yield from a 24-year high of 5.34% to a 5.233% close on Thursday, after its biggest quarterly rise since 1994. Part of that demand was a flight to safety, and part was a bet that the Fed holds off on further hikes.
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Freddie Mac's benchmark 30-year mortgage rate rose to 7.28% this week, a sixth straight weekly increase and the highest since November 2023. Since February it has risen as far as the 10-year Treasury yield, so the cost of a move this fall depends on the bond market's inflation outlook.
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Woori Bank raised its one-year corporate deposit rate to 4.09% on September 30, up 1.12 points this year. With companies supplying about 80% of Korean bank deposits, that posted rate now sits within 0.6 points of what banks charged on new mortgages in August.
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The S&P 500 gained 235% in the decade to December 2025 against 87% for Case-Shiller home prices, before dividends. That gap favors renting and investing, though it leans on a run of double-digit stock years last matched in the late 1990s.
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Treasury yields have held around 5% at nearly every maturity, and 53% of 173 specialists Bloomberg polled expect the 30-year to top 6% this year. Plans that assume cheaper money soon now depend on an oil shock fading faster than AI and deficit borrowing.
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Small-business delinquency at KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana and Woori reached 0.53% to 0.92% by the end of August, above every household ratio at the four banks. Recent rate rises have not fully reached delinquency ratios, a financial industry official says, so households paying up to 6.89% on mortgages are the risk still to show up.
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Redfin counted 58% more US home sellers than buyers in August, its widest gap on record, with concessions in 44.7% of sales. Whether buyers are actually paying less depends on how large those concessions have become, because the median sale price still rose about 2% over the year.
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US existing-home sales fell 2 per cent in August to a 3.98 million annual pace while listings rose to 1.62 million homes, the most since November 2019, and the ratio of the two is about 4.9 months of supply.
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Chase is taking up to 0.25% off mortgage rates from Sept. 14 to Oct. 4, its third such sale in just over a year. With rates near 7%, big lenders are paying for loan volume with time-limited discounts, cash grants and pricing tied to deposits held at the bank.
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Bond traders price about 100bp of further Fed hikes by next summer, with the 10-year Treasury yield up 121bp to 5.18% since the attack on Iran. Borrowers who planned around cuts are now betting against a Fed that voted unanimously to hike eight days ago.
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The Case Shiller national index is up more than 55% for the 2020s without a price crash, because 40% of homeowners owe nothing, most of the rest refinanced below 3%, and the adjustment came out of sales volume.
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