Mortgage rates drop to the 5% range for first time since September

Prospective buyers at an open house in Florida. Mike Stocker | South Florida Sun Sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The average rate on the 30-year fixed rate mortgage has fallen to 5.99%,...

Redfin and Zillow Stock Slide Shows Possible Shift in Home Listings Landscape

Text size Redfin’s stock fell 8.5% on Wednesday. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Redfin Shares of real estate companies Redfin and Zillow Group fell on Wednesday after news of a potential shakeup in...

Residential housing demand ‘cratered’ as mortgage rates spiked, analyst says

Raymond James analyst Buck Horne lowered ratings on all of the home-builder stocks he covers, as he believes the recent “relentless” climb in mortgage rates has ensured a housing recession. “Interest ...

Firms to watch with housing shortage set to benefit homebuilder stocks

Ariel Skelley | Digitalvision | Getty Images The double whammy of a declining stock market and rising interest rates has been pummeling homebuilder stocks this year, resulting in rock-bottom valuation...

Home Builders Are the Cheapest Stocks Around. Is It Time to Buy?

Construction workers on a Toll Brothers home in Boca Raton, Fla. Toll and other home builders currently trade near book value. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Text size The housing market is still robust, but...

Home Building Stocks Are Ultracheap, Analyst Says. Investors Are Catching On.

Home building stocks now are “dirt cheap,” according to one Wall Street analyst, and investors are beginning to take notice.  Stephen Kim, the home building analyst at Evercore ISI, wrote in a client ...

‘We absolutely believe Ether’ surpassing bitcoin’s total market value ‘can happen this year,’ says ETF expert: ‘The bull case is an Etherum ETF in 2022’

Hello there! The Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ is up over 2% so far this week. That is not where many investors would have bet that the popular exchange-traded fund would be trading now based on the wild acti...

Home Depot Was the Dow’s Best Performer. Why the Gains Are Set to Continue.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Home construction and improvement stocks are poised to continue their gains in 2022, as the work-from-home trend continues, mortgage rates remain low, and proper...