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Today, more homeowners like Khazai are kissing their 3% mortgage rate goodbye as the housing market enters a new era. As of the third quarter of 2025, there were more homeowners with an interest rate ...

We rent a house to our daughter. She pays the rent, which equals the mortgage payment. It's been a struggle each month getting the payment from her. There's a balance of about $40,000 left on the ...

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters in the U.S. and across the world have dramatically risen in the past few ...

The current average mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.17%, compared to 6.15% a week earlier, according to the ...

The average U.S. home insurance premium increased 24% between 2021 and 2024, according to the Consumer Federation of America.

The affordability crisis has weighed heavily on the housing market for three straight years, pushing home sales to ...

As it turns out, not everyone has a loan on their house. In fact, 40 percent of U.S. homes don’t have a mortgage, per the ...

The U.S. home insurance market exhibited signs of stabilization in 2025 after years of steep premium increases and ...