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Rates Rising Quickly, But The Truly Scary Stuff is For Another Day And Another Reason

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by Matthew Graham on January 06 2021, 5:33 PM

Mortgage rates went to bed last night knowing they were at risk of a volatile day today. Georgia's senate race has been in focus for 2 months now because it had the chance to change the balance of power in congress. With both seats flipping from red to...
Mortgage Rates Brace For Potential Impact

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by Matthew Graham on January 05 2021, 3:53 PM

Mortgage rates got off to a slow start yesterday. It was hard to object considering that left the average lender in line with record lows. But today was a bit different. While most lenders were little-changed at first, many ultimately raised rates during...
Mortgage Rates Off To Slow Start, Which is Great

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by Matthew Graham on January 04 2021, 4:30 PM

Mortgage rates are off to a slow start in the new year, and that's a good thing. An absence of movement means the average lender continues offering rates that are at or near record lows. For top tier, conventional 30yr fixed loans, that's around 2.75...
Mortgage Rates Closing Out The Year at Record Lows

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by Matthew Graham on December 29 2020, 3:50 PM

For all practical purposes, the year is over when it comes to mortgage rate volatility. True, there is some small chance that political developments conspire to push rates just a bit higher in the next two days, but the damage would be insignificant in...
Mortgage Rates Edge Higher From Long-Term Lows

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by Matthew Graham on December 22 2020, 6:54 PM

Mortgage rates hit another all-time low on Friday for most lenders. Other lenders had slightly lower rates yesterday morning. Since then however, almost every lender has moved up from those lows, even if only by microscopically small amounts in the bigger...
Several Charts Showing The Ticking Clock For Rates

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by Matthew Graham on December 18 2020, 4:57 PM

One major theme in the 2nd half of 2020 is that mortgage rates have been insulated from market drama--walking a different path than their usual best friend, 10yr Treasury yields. If you ask Treasuries, the big bounce in rates is already well underway...
How Much Lower Are Today's "All-Time Low" Mortgage Rates?

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by Matthew Graham on December 17 2020, 5:50 PM

2020 has safely secured its place in the record books as the year of all-time lows in mortgage rates --one of them anyway. Several other years have recently boasted as many new instances of record lows, but none have done so with the average 30yr fixed...
Mortgage Rates Undeterred After Fed Day

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by Matthew Graham on December 16 2020, 4:36 PM

Today marked the release of an updated policy statement from the Federal Reserve. In other words, it was Fed day! Lots can happen on Fed days--especially those that occur in December. This has increasingly become a month where the Fed unveils a key policy...
Mortgage Rates Holding Near All-Time Lows Ahead of The Fed

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by Matthew Graham on December 15 2020, 5:12 PM

Mortgage rates were mixed today, depending on the lender. The bond market--the driving force behind interest rate movement--was stronger yesterday. Many mortgage lenders thought it was strong enough to justify mid-day improvements in mortgage rates. Those...
Mortgage Rates Barely Higher For Some; Lower For Others

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by Matthew Graham on December 14 2020, 3:33 PM

What do you get when you add a modest amount of cost to the average mortgage rate from last Friday? Rates that are still effectively right in line with all-time lows . In fact, most borrowers will not see any major differences in loan quotes between the...
Time To Think About Mortgage Rate Complacency (Before It's Too Late)

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by Matthew Graham on December 11 2020, 5:58 PM

After months of waiting and multiple successive reports of all-time lows from other sources, the average lender is now finally back in line with the actual all-time lows seen on August 4th, 2020. With different sources making this claim at different times...
It's Late 2020, So Why Would Mortgage Rates Even Move?

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by Matthew Graham on December 10 2020, 4:05 PM

It's old news that 2020 is unprecedented for a lot of bad reasons, but how about a few that aren't so bad? As is often the case when anything causes massive global economic contraction, interest rates plummeted. That's a good thing, in and of itself....
Huge Gaps Remain Between Lenders' Mortgage Rate Offerings

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by Matthew Graham on December 09 2020, 4:46 PM

While all is easily forgiven in light of all-time low rates, the pandemic made a mess of the mortgage market in many ways. Most messes have been resolved, but several big ones remain. A few examples include a near doubling of previous turn times (from...
Refi Rates Are Finally Back to All-Time Lows

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by Matthew Graham on December 08 2020, 5:11 PM

For some lenders, it was last week. For others, it was today. After months of waiting and multiple successive reports of all-time lows from other sources, the average lender is now finally back in line with the actual all-time lows seen on August 4th...
Mortgage Rates Living Their Own Life By Their Own Rules

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by Matthew Graham on December 07 2020, 4:59 PM

You might think you know mortgage rates. You might make assumptions about where they'll go and what they'll do based on past precedent. For decades, you may have done a nearly flawless job of that simply by drawing the exceedingly logical conclusion that...

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