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| Mortgage Rates Flat Ahead of Next Week’s High-Stakes Data | ||
| 8/8/2025 12:57 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates finally moved in a slightly more noticeable direction today, but the change was still inconsequential in the bigger picture. The average 30yr fixed rate in our index edged up a mere 2 hundredths of a percent from 6.55% to 6.57%, exactly matching the levels seen on August 6th. This leaves rates in the same low range they’ve occupied a...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Hit Another New Longer-Term Low | ||
| 8/7/2025 2:54 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates have barely budged after Monday with the day-over-day change failing to exceed 0.02% on any given day. But today"s budging happened to bring the average 30yr fixed rate to another 10-month low. Lenders are in the mid 6% range for top tier scenarios. Economic data is one of the common influences for the bonds that underly rate ...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Steadily Holding Longer-Term Lows | ||
| 8/6/2025 2:31 PM | ||
| Although there were flashes of potential volatility in the underlying bond market at times today, mortgage rates made it through unscathed. In other words, the volatility wasn"t sufficient to force the average lender to make mid-day changes to the rates they decided to offer this morning. Whereas yesterday saw an inconsequentially small incr...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Holding at 10 Month Lows | ||
| 8/5/2025 2:50 PM | ||
| Yesterday saw the average 30yr fixed rate fall back in line with levels from early October, 2024. This happened for two reasons. The broader, underlying reason is that rates have been in a fairly narrow, stable range and that range was already relatively closer to 10 month lows than 10 month highs. The more specific reason is quite clearly the mar...Read More | ||
| Lowest Mortgage Rates Since Early October | ||
| 8/4/2025 3:09 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates are driven by movement in the bond market and bonds take cues from economic data, among other things. The monthly jobs report is routinely the most closely watched economic report as far as bonds are concerned and Friday"s caused a significant amount of bond buying (which, in turn, pushes rates down). Friday"s reaction was so big th...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Instantly Drop to 4 Month Lows After Jobs Report | ||
| 8/1/2025 2:36 PM | ||
| Every month, we offer the same old warning/reminder ahead of the big jobs report--something to the effect of "no other economic report has as much power to cause volatility in rates, for better or worse." Days like today are the reason for that reminder. Thankfully, it was the "better" end of the spectrum. Rates tend to improve when economic...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Hold Near July Lows Ahead of Jobs Report | ||
| 7/31/2025 2:51 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates went to bed last night knowing that the bond market would need to improve in the morning in order for prevailing levels to be maintained. In other words, bonds had begun losing ground yesterday, but not enough for mortgage lenders to go to the trouble of re-issuing rates (something they prefer to do as little as possible). Thankfull...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Sideways to Slightly Lower | ||
| 7/30/2025 2:49 PM | ||
| Wednesday brought another incremental increase in the level and importance of the calendar events with the power to create volatility for rates. Some of the events were economic reports out earlier in the morning. The other 2 events consisted of the Fed"s policy announcement and the subsequent press conference with Fed Chair Powell. The economic d...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Moving Down Again | ||
| 7/29/2025 2:43 PM | ||
| After three straight days at exactly the same level, average 30yr fixed rates began to move lower again on Tuesday. It should immediately be clarified that the word "began" implies a certain likelihood of continuation whereas no such likelihoods can be guaranteed when it comes to the bond/rate market. In other words, rates did indeed begin to move ...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Hold Perfectly Flat to Start New Week | ||
| 7/28/2025 2:15 PM | ||
| If any given week of movement in the mortgage rate world came with disclaimer, this one would be: "Warning. An absence of volatility on Monday has no bearing on odds for volatility in the rest of the week." More simply put, you"re essentially guaranteed to see more rate movement over the next 4 days simply because today saw none. Of all of the day...Read More | ||