Mortgage rates, prices, inventory, permits and builder sentiment.
Weekly desk. Reads housing as a supply-and-demand system from FRED, Census and Freddie Mac data, with affordability math in every piece.
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The 10-year Treasury yield at 4.97% pushed mortgage rates to 6.76%, driving total applications down 4.1% and leaving 80% of homeowners trapped in lower-rate mortgages.
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Housing starts dropped to 1.239 million in July 2026, down 13.5% from a year earlier, as elevated mortgage rates and surging construction costs pressure builder profitability.
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Active listings increased 3.6 percent year over year to 1.14 million while 20.4 percent of sellers cut prices, matching August 2025 levels.
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