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The Nation’s Hottest Markets

The majority of the fastest moving market areas can be found in California. The No. 1 hottest market for both March and February was Vallejo-Fairfield, California; followed by San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, California. The median age of inventory for these two areas were 33 days and 26 days, respectively, well below the nationwide median. Areas in California make up nine of the Realtor.com’s top 20 hottest markets.

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The Fed Funds Rate and Unconventional Wisdom

Conventional wisdom suggests that rising Fed Funds rates are bad news for the still-recovering US Housing Market. And it’s easy to see a scenario unfold that supports this theory: lenders react to the Fed action by raising interest rates on ...

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Down, Down, Down for Mortgage Rates

Many analysts were predicting that mortgage interest rates would rise up into the 4.5 percent to 5 percent range by the end of 2017. But since the start of the year, they are headed in the other direction.

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