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Home prices ease, but monthly payments higher because of mortgage rates

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MORTGAGE PAYMENTS

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( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “in recent years.”

Would-be homebuyers are willing to take on sharply higher mortgage payments, even as home prices have begun to pull back this year.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.

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VERBATIM: The median monthly payment listed on applications for home purchase loans jumped 14.1% in May from a year earlier to an all-time high $2,165. That’s according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, which also notes the May figure also represents a 2.5% increase from April. The size of the mortgage and the interest rate on the loan influence are two housing market variables that have ballooned in recent years.

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