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Why multifamily housing investors should consider Knoxville

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Knoxville’s appeal to employers and job-hunters should make it attractive to investors seeking stable growth in a market that outperforms its size, Michael Zaransky writes. Continue reading →

Good news, bad news in this month’s numbers: Jeff Tucker

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In this exclusive series on Inman, Windermere’s Principal Economist Jeff Tucker looks at jobs, interest rates and more numbers to know right now. Continue reading →

Good news, bad news in this month’s numbers: Jeff Tucker

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In this exclusive series on Inman, Windermere’s Principal Economist Jeff Tucker looks at jobs, interest rates and more numbers to know right now. Continue reading →

Home sales could inch up even if growth stays sluggish next year

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Home sales should break through the 5 million mark next year as more inventory gradually comes on the market and home prices decline, economists at the Mortgage Bankers Association predict. Continue reading →

Fannie Mae dials back sales expectations by 220,000 homes

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Driving the revised forecast are expectations for slightly cooler economic growth and hotter inflation, which could mean mortgage rates come down a little more slowly. Continue reading →

Mortgage rates are coming down. Does the trend have any legs?

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Hopes that home sales will pick up may hinge more on additional inventory coming onto the market, which is expected to cool or reverse home price gains. Continue reading →

Mortgage rates surge on Moody’s downgrade of US credit rating

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Moody’s Ratings is the last credit agency to strip U.S. of most favorable debt rating over concerns that Congress and “successive U.S. administrations” have failed to tackle annual budget deficits, growing interest costs. Continue reading →

Fannie Mae forecasting higher 2025 inflation, slower growth

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Slowing economy could also help bring mortgage rates down to Earth more rapidly, with the latest forecast predicting rates will drop to 6.2 percent by the end of this year and to 6 percent next year. Continue reading →

Trump announces universal tariffs of at least 10% on most nations

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Sweeping plan imposes higher duties on “worst offenders” and is in addition to 25 percent tariff on foreign automobiles slated to take effect April 3. Continue reading →

Rates have room to come down as economy cools: Fannie Mae

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Tariffs are expected to rekindle inflation and slow economic growth, but the recent pullback in mortgage rates should provide a “small boost” to home sales this year, economists say. Continue reading →