Higher borrowing costs are slowing down the housing market and discouraging both buyers and sellers.
Borrowing costs have risen more than the benchmark Treasury yields they track, pushing up interest rates for buyers Applications for purchase mortgages dropped to their lowest levels since 1995, the Mortgage Bankers Association said this week.
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