Markets in a Minute: A quick weekly look at the mortgage, financial, and real estate markets.

Does the Fed rate increase mean that you should wait for lower rates to purchase a new home? Not necessarily.

Aside from the unprecedented events of the great recession U.S. Residential Housing Prices have continued to climb for more than 40 years.

According to HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau, sales of newly built, single-family homes topped the one million mark.

The real estate market has seen very tight inventories for some time, so it is good news to see an uptick in new Single Family Home Starts.