Tue, Oct 4 2016, 2:54 PM
Mortgage Rates moved significantly higher today, relative to recently narrow ranges. It's enough to bring the most prevalent conventional 30yr fixed q...
Mon, Oct 3 2016, 3:47 PM
Mortgage Rates were higher today, with most lenders at their highest levels in nearly 2 weeks. The bond markets that underlie mortgage rate movement r...
Fri, Sep 30 2016, 3:47 PM
Mortgage Rates were mixed today, with some lenders in slightly weaker territory while others offered modest improvements versus yesterday. The dichoto...
Thu, Sep 29 2016, 4:29 PM
Mortgage Rates were slightly higher again today, marking the second day spent pulling back from a nice move lower that followed last week's Fed announ...
Wed, Sep 28 2016, 4:57 PM
Mortgage Rates finally took a break from their recent winning streak today. While there are a few lenders whose rates are just a hair lower than yeste...
Tue, Sep 27 2016, 3:52 PM
Mortgage Rates maintained their recent winning streak today, falling for the 5th straight day. The average lender is now offering the best rates in ne...
Mon, Sep 26 2016, 3:50 PM
Mortgage Rates were lower again today, marking the 4th straight day of improvements and the 8th day without a meaningful increase. This brings the ave...
Fri, Sep 23 2016, 2:38 PM
Mortgage Rates continued steadily lower today, adding to a string of improvements that brings them to their best levels in more than 2 weeks. Rates ha...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 4:11 PM
Mortgage Rates made more substantial gains today, after financial markets had more time to react to yesterday's announcement from the Federal Reserve....
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 4:36 PM
Mortgage Rates made modest gains in some cases today, though many lenders are in roughly the same territory as yesterday. Things could be worse, howev...
Tue, Sep 20 2016, 2:54 PM
Mortgage Rates were slightly higher in most cases today, although there were a few lenders in better shape. This runs counter to movement seen in unde...
Mon, Sep 19 2016, 5:09 PM
Mortgage Rates were unchanged for a third straight day, although several lenders did raise rates at the end of the day. That can happen when underlyin...
Fri, Sep 16 2016, 3:51 PM
Mortgage Rates were unchanged again today, on average. Some lenders were modestly better than yesterday. Others were modestly worse. But all were fair...
Thu, Sep 15 2016, 3:24 PM
Mortgage Rates were unchanged in most cases today, keeping them near their highest levels in more than 2 months. Rates are driven primarily by movemen...
Wed, Sep 14 2016, 5:22 PM
Mortgage Rates fell modestly today, but only enough to bring upfront costs slightly lower for the same rates quoted yesterday. Still, it's a most welc...
Tue, Sep 13 2016, 3:57 PM
Mortgage Rates were only slightly higher today, and in some cases were right in line with yesterday's. In fact, if you caught a lenders' rate sheet ea...
Mon, Sep 12 2016, 3:54 PM
Mortgage Rates continued higher today. Even though the spike wasn't as severe as Friday's, we nonetheless find ourselves well into the highest levels ...
Fri, Sep 9 2016, 5:02 PM
Mortgage Rates continued sharply higher today, as financial markets quickly adjust their outlook for global monetary policy (the rate-setting and asse...
Thu, Sep 8 2016, 4:01 PM
Mortgage Rates bounced highe r today, bringing them back in line with the pervasive range of the past several weeks. As of yesterday, rates were techn...
Wed, Sep 7 2016, 2:30 PM
Mortgage Rates moved lower today at a slightly better pace than the recent norm. That's not saying much in the bigger picture, because "the norm" has ...
Tue, Sep 6 2016, 4:06 PM
Mortgage Rates were in a bit of a pickle on Friday afternoon. The big jobs report had just come out slightly weaker than expected, yet rates didn't im...
Fri, Sep 2 2016, 4:08 PM
Mortgage Rates were steady to slightly higher today, depending on the lender--a relative victory considering the potential volatility associated with ...
Thu, Sep 1 2016, 2:59 PM
Mortgage Rates were slightly higher today, bringing them near their worst levels in several weeks. The caveats are twofold. First of all, the worst le...
Wed, Aug 31 2016, 5:13 PM
Mortgage Rates were unchanged today, ending a month without much movement in general. In fact, the most prevalently quoted conventional 30yr fixed rat...
Tue, Aug 30 2016, 3:06 PM
Mortgage Rates did one of two things today, depending on the lender in question. Some lenders simply held in line with yesterday's latest levels (in o...
Mon, Aug 29 2016, 3:59 PM
Mortgage Rates were briefly at their highest levels in several weeks on Friday afternoon. This followed comments from the Fed's Jackson Hole symposium...
Fri, Aug 26 2016, 10:54 AM
Mortgage Rates were unchanged to slightly lower this morning following the much-anticipated Jackson Hole speech from Fed Chair Janet Yellen. Markets w...
Thu, Aug 25 2016, 3:22 PM
Mortgage Rates were unchanged , yet again, keeping alive an uncanny streak of lifelessness. That COULD change tomorrow after Fed Chair Yellen's speech...
Wed, Aug 24 2016, 4:21 PM
Mortgage Rates , like most other interest rates, have seen record-setting levels of inactivity over the past 90 days. The Brexit vote in late June pus...
Tue, Aug 23 2016, 2:07 PM
Mortgage Rates were sharply sideways today, with almost every lender offering the exact same terms as yesterday. This is part of an ongoing phenomenon...
Mon, Aug 22 2016, 4:14 PM
Mortgage Rates were almost imperceptibly lower today, although underlying bond markets improved more noticeably. Why would rates not be more improved ...
Fri, Aug 19 2016, 3:09 PM
Mortgage Rates moved modestly higher today , but remain in an excruciatingly narrow range in the bigger picture. Actually, there's nothing too excruci...
Thu, Aug 18 2016, 3:27 PM
Mortgage Rates continued avoiding drama today, moving moderately lower as bond markets held on to gains that followed yesterday's Fed Minutes. As we d...
Wed, Aug 17 2016, 3:11 PM
Mortgage Rates were sideways to slightly higher today, although some lenders offered modest improvements after the release of the Minutes from the mos...
Tue, Aug 16 2016, 2:59 PM
Mortgage Rates were sideways to slightly higher today, depending on the lender. Several lenders issued mid-day reprices as bond yields moved higher th...
Mon, Aug 15 2016, 3:01 PM
In addition to writing about mortgage rates , I also follow and analyze the underlying bond markets. Early on in that endeavor, one of my favorite phr...
Fri, Aug 12 2016, 3:37 PM
Just a day after bouncing firmly higher from the lowest levels in a month, mortgage rates are right back down to the bottom of the recent range. For s...
Thu, Aug 11 2016, 3:25 PM
Mortgage rates bounced higher today , after 2 solid days of improvement. In the bigger picture, rates are still closer to the lowest levels of the pas...
Wed, Aug 10 2016, 4:27 PM
Mortgage rates improved again today , bringing them back in line with the lowest levels of the month. Considering that today is only the 10th day of t...
Tue, Aug 9 2016, 4:07 PM
It was a good day for mortgage rates . After moving higher at a somewhat disconcerting pace last Friday, rates were quickly approaching the upper boun...
Mon, Aug 8 2016, 4:29 PM
Mortgage rates continued higher today, extending a sharp move that began on Friday following stronger-than-expected employment data. There are two dis...
Fri, Aug 5 2016, 5:36 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher at the fastest pace in more than 3 weeks today, following a much stronger-than-expected jobs report. The Employment Situat...
Thu, Aug 4 2016, 4:04 PM
Mortgage rates were moderately lower today, keeping them well-within the dominant range of the past 2-3 weeks. Compared to yesterday, lenders would be...
Wed, Aug 3 2016, 5:09 PM
Mortgage rates were nominally higher today, though you'd be hard-pressed to find any evidence of that on lender rate sheets. For all practical pu...
Tue, Aug 2 2016, 4:16 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher again today, after hitting the lowest levels in roughly 2 weeks last Friday. Like yesterday, today's increase was fai...
Mon, Aug 1 2016, 5:51 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher today after hitting the lowest levels in roughly 2 weeks last Friday. Today's increase was fairly minimal in the big ...
Fri, Jul 29 2016, 4:15 PM
Mortgage rates enjoyed another strong day, falling to the best levels in exactly 2 weeks. Rates were actually set to move higher early this morni...
Thu, Jul 28 2016, 3:56 PM
Mortgage rates fell at the quickest pace in more than a month today as lenders priced-in the market improvements seen after yesterday's Fed Announ...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 3:56 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower today, although that's only true for lenders who issued mid-day improvements following the Fed's policy announ...
Tue, Jul 26 2016, 4:58 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly higher today, and are now effectively at the highest levels in month. That sounds a bit more dire than it is, thoug...
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