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New Housing Headwind Looms as Fewer Renters Can Afford to Own
Last decade’s housing crisis could give way to a new one in which many families lack the incomes or savings needed to buy homes, creating a surge of renters and a shortage of affordable housing. The...
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Quicken Loans Super Bowl Ad: No, This Isn’t Housing Apocalypse 2.0
Courtesy of Quicken Loans Quicken Loans’s Super Bowl ad has sparked rumblings over whether we should worry about a new housing bubble. “What if we did for mortgages what the Internet did for buying...
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Trump Names Mortgage Industry Lobbyist to HUD Transition Team
Quicken LoansPresident-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named a top government-relations executive for one of the nation’s largest mortgage companies to the team overseeing the transition at the...
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Credit Restrictions Cost Home Buyers ‘Deal of a Lifetime’
Kevin D. Liles for The Wall Street Journal Sean Dobson wanted to start a mortgage bank four years ago to serve borrowers with middling credit or irregular income. He eventually decided that growing...
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Fed Cuts Rates By Quarter Point, But Faces Growing Split
Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve voted to cut interest rates by a quarter-percentage point for the second time in as many months to cushion the economy against a global...
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Fed Cuts Rate for Third Time This Year, Hints at Pause
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third time this year and began to downplay expectations of further cuts for now. The policy statement released...
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New Housing Headwind Looms as Fewer Renters Can Afford to Own
Last decade’s housing crisis could give way to a new one in which many families lack the incomes or savings needed to buy homes, creating a surge of renters and a shortage of affordable housing. The...
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Quicken Loans Super Bowl Ad: No, This Isn’t Housing Apocalypse 2.0
Courtesy of Quicken LoansQuicken Loans’s Super Bowl ad has sparked rumblings over whether we should worry about a new housing bubble. “What if we did for mortgages what the Internet did for buying...
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Trump Names Mortgage Industry Lobbyist to HUD Transition Team
Quicken LoansPresident-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named a top government-relations executive for one of the nation’s largest mortgage companies to the team overseeing the transition at the...
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Credit Restrictions Cost Home Buyers ‘Deal of a Lifetime’
Kevin D. Liles for The Wall Street Journal Sean Dobson wanted to start a mortgage bank four years ago to serve borrowers with middling credit or irregular income. He eventually decided that growing...
View ArticleRising Rents Pose Risks to the Fed’s Inflation Outlook
The degree to which 12-month inflation readings fall back to the central bank’s 2% goal could rest on the behavior of rents and home prices. In recent months, housing-cost trends point to more...
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