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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The daily 30-year fixed reached 7.24% last week. Applications feeding Q4 closings are down far more than signed contracts, and the buyers still transacting are increasingly cash buyers.
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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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A Pew study puts that band at 22.3% of originations in 2024, while scores of 700 and above gained 24.9 points over the same period. Existing home sales are now running at a 3.98 million annual pace.
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The 30-year mortgage sits 41 basis points above where it was last September, existing home sales have fallen three months running, and August's monthly inflation stepped back up to 0.4%. Housing-exposed plans need a new base case.
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Danmarks Nationalbank went to 2.10% within hours of the ECB's move to 2.50%. Capital flowed into the krone in August anyway, and the bank had to intervene in the currency market to hold the peg's band.
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Redfin's generational series puts 28-year-old ownership 6.1 points below boomers at the same age, even after prices rose almost 60% this decade. It counts purchases already made, not ones being financed at 6%.
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A new scenario model puts household numbers on the fiscal path: $53,000 in extra lifetime mortgage payments for a 2031 buyer, and a $705 monthly hole for retirees by 2033.
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The 30-year fixed rate slipped two basis points to 6.65%, its second straight weekly decline. It is still seven basis points above where it sat a year ago.
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Pending home sales fell 2.3% in July to the second-lowest reading on record, and the West hit an outright record low. A fourth year at the bottom is not a cycle you wait out.
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