Mon, Jan 11 2016, 5:23 PM
Mortgage rates finally pulled back (higher)--albeit slightly--after spending most of the past 2 weeks moving significantly lower. Much of the recen...
Fri, Jan 8 2016, 5:28 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today, despite an exceptionally strong jobs report--something that typically sends rates screaming higher. Recently, how...
Thu, Jan 7 2016, 5:06 PM
Mortgage rates inched slightly lower today, adding to an already impressive string of improvements in the new year. Rates typically take most of th...
Wed, Jan 6 2016, 5:27 PM
Mortgage rates moved respectably lower today, nearly making it to the best levels in a month. Whereas the average conventional 30yr fixed quote h...
Tue, Jan 5 2016, 5:12 PM
Mortgage rates were essentially unchanged for many lenders today and just barely higher for others. There were no major sources of inspiration as...
Mon, Jan 4 2016, 4:59 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today as financial markets roared back to life after the winter break. In this age of ever-increasing automation and d...
Thu, Dec 31 2015, 2:33 PM
Mortgage rates had an interesting year to say the least. After almost universal consensus on a move toward higher rates the first few months of t...
Wed, Dec 30 2015, 4:53 PM
Mortgage rates managed to hold steady
today after moving up to the highest levels in more than 5 months
yesterday. Rates had moved close to c...
Tue, Dec 29 2015, 4:27 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly highe r today. While it wasn't a big move in the grand scheme of things, rates were already fairly close to their hi...
Mon, Dec 28 2015, 6:49 PM
Mortgage rates were sideways to slightly lower today as underlying bond markets continue to operate in holiday mode. While that can occasionally ...
Thu, Dec 24 2015, 12:43 PM
Almost any article you see today on mortgage rates will say the same thing: "rates are roughly unchanged from last week." Almost every article w...
Wed, Dec 23 2015, 5:37 PM
Mortgage rates moved up for the second consecutive day, but in an uncommon way. Mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) are the financial instruments th...
Tue, Dec 22 2015, 5:39 PM
Mortgage rates bounced slightly higher today, ending a 4-day winning streak that began with last Wednesday's Fed rate hike. Generally speaking, t...
Mon, Dec 21 2015, 6:44 PM
Mortgage rates continued a trend of small, steady improvements into the new week today. This marks the 4th straight day of a winning streak that ...
Fri, Dec 18 2015, 4:44 PM
Mortgage rates maintained their paradoxical descent following this week's Fed rate hike. The paradox can be accounted-for in several ways, but th...
Thu, Dec 17 2015, 4:59 PM
Mortgage rates continued modestly lower today as financial markets continue sorting out their reaction to yesterday's Fed rate hike. As a reminde...
Wed, Dec 16 2015, 6:40 PM
Mortgage rates moved just slightly lower today, despite the long-awaited Fed rate hike. Once again, that's LOWER mortgage rates and a HIGHER Fed ...
Tue, Dec 15 2015, 4:57 PM
Mortgage rates jumped again today, moving to the highest levels more than a month ahead of tomorrow's hotly anticipated Fed Announcement. Many le...
Mon, Dec 14 2015, 5:10 PM
Mortgage rates moved quickly higher today, more than erasing Friday's strong performance. If fact, most lenders are at their highest levels in mo...
Fri, Dec 11 2015, 6:18 PM
Mortgage rates recovered yesterday's losses in many cases, and moved even lower in many other cases. The mortgage sector was one of the tamer per...
Thu, Dec 10 2015, 5:21 PM
Mortgage rates moved moderately higher today, bringing them to the worst levels in exactly one week. That said, the movement over that time has b...
Wed, Dec 9 2015, 4:41 PM
Mortgage rates held steady for a second straight day, but only when considering the end-of-day rate sheets. The morning hours were similar on eac...
Tue, Dec 8 2015, 5:17 PM
Mortgage rates held steady today after spending the past 2 business days recovering from the worst day in more than 2 years last Thursday. As we ...
Mon, Dec 7 2015, 5:01 PM
Mortgage rates continued lower at a decent pace today, further eroding the big move higher seen last Thursday. While the average lender isn't qui...
Fri, Dec 4 2015, 5:26 PM
Mortgage rates fought back today , following their biggest single-day jump in more than 2 years on Thursday. Today's significant event was the Emp...
Thu, Dec 3 2015, 7:13 PM
Mortgage rates were crushed today , moving higher at the fastest single-day pace since 2013. The average lender saw a full eighth point hike in 30...
Wed, Dec 2 2015, 5:05 PM
Coming off their best day in over a month, mortgage rates held mostly steady today,
although some lenders were slightly higher. This is somew...
Tue, Dec 1 2015, 4:24 PM
Mortgage rates had their best day in over a month today. It was also the first day with any legitimate movement in nearly three weeks. Over that...
Mon, Nov 30 2015, 5:40 PM
Mortgage rate drama has been on an unapologetic, no-holds-barred, "couldn't-care-less" sort of vacation for the past 2-3 weeks . There have only...
Fri, Nov 27 2015, 1:58 PM
Mortgage rates did absolutely nothing today. In fact, some lenders were not even open for business today. Those who were, generally made no disc...
Wed, Nov 25 2015, 5:12 PM
Mortgage rates broke from tradition today by maintaining an almost perfectly flat trajectory leading up to Thanksgiving. This time of year is typ...
Tue, Nov 24 2015, 4:47 PM
Mortgage rates held steady today on average, with a few lenders improving almost imperceptibly. The most prevalently-quoted conventional 30yr fix...
Mon, Nov 23 2015, 4:32 PM
Mortgage rates rose today for most lenders, albeit modestly. In fact, several lenders were unchanged from Friday's latest levels with the rest ...
Fri, Nov 20 2015, 4:37 PM
Mortgage rates started the day slightly lower compared to yesterday's latest offerings. Mid-day weakness in bond markets resulted in most lenders...
Thu, Nov 19 2015, 4:42 PM
Mortgage rates moved nicely lower today, relative to the recent, plodding improvements. This brings most lenders back to their lowest levels sinc...
Wed, Nov 18 2015, 4:57 PM
Mortgage rates were just slightly higher today, keeping them in a holding pattern just shy of 4-month highs. This after an abrupt move higher fro...
Tue, Nov 17 2015, 5:26 PM
Mortgage rates had an interesting day today, with most lenders beginning at slightly higher levels, but improving by the end of the day. The aver...
Mon, Nov 16 2015, 4:53 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower for the third straight day and have now spent 4 days without moving higher. Like the previous two business da...
Fri, Nov 13 2015, 5:03 PM
For the third straight day, mortgage rates have avoided moving any higher . Each of the past two days have seen only modest improvements. That ...
Thu, Nov 12 2015, 5:08 PM
Mortgage rates finally had a winning day, but just barely . Underlying bond markets were actually mixed on the day, but this gave lenders enough s...
Tue, Nov 10 2015, 3:50 PM
Mortgage rates did something they haven't done on any other day so far this month. They avoided moving higher. While that's a welcome change, to...
Mon, Nov 9 2015, 4:14 PM
Mortgage rates continued pressing into the highest levels since July --themselves the highest levels of the year. In just over a week, the most ...
Fri, Nov 6 2015, 5:26 PM
Mortgage rates leaped significantly higher today, following an exceptionally strong jobs report. Typically released on the first Friday of every ...
Thu, Nov 5 2015, 4:17 PM
Mortgage rates rose at a slightly gentler pace today, but that's little consolation considering that any move higher increasingly pushes into the ...
Wed, Nov 4 2015, 4:15 PM
Mortgage rates maintained their upward momentum today, rising to the highest levels since late September after Janet Yellen confirmed the Fed's ra...
Tue, Nov 3 2015, 4:38 PM
Mortgage rates rose at a quicker pace today, bringing them up to the highest levels in more than a month. October saw several of the more aggress...
Mon, Nov 2 2015, 5:03 PM
Mortgage rates continued slightly higher today, after hitting 1-month highs late last week. In general, the mortgage rate environment has been un...
Fri, Oct 30 2015, 3:10 PM
Mortgage rates avoided any further damage today after moving to the highest levels in a month yesterday. The past two days made for the sharpest ...
Thu, Oct 29 2015, 5:01 PM
Mortgage rates continued heading higher at a fairly quick pace today, extending the move that began after yesterday's Fed Announcement. That migh...
Wed, Oct 28 2015, 5:11 PM
Mortgage rates moved quickly lower after today's Fed Announcement. While the Fed was, by no means, expected to hike rates in October, there was a...