Fri, Sep 15 2023, 5:23 PM
In and of itself, today wasn't too bad for mortgage rates. Things got a bit worse, but the change from yesterday was average or slightly lower. Ther...
Thu, Sep 14 2023, 4:27 PM
Whatever is bad for the economy is typically good for interest rates. That's the grim irony for the mortgage market and it's the reason you might fin...
Wed, Sep 13 2023, 4:44 PM
Today's big to-do was the release of August's Consumer Price Index (CPI), a critical inflation report with the power to significantly influence rate m...
Tue, Sep 12 2023, 3:20 PM
Mortgage rates started the week slightly higher for the average lender, but still below last week's highs. Most of what was lost yesterday was gained...
Fri, Sep 8 2023, 6:55 PM
While it's impossible to predict the future when it comes to financial markets, it's usually possible to identify the events that have higher potentia...
Thu, Sep 7 2023, 4:00 PM
Mortgage rates haven't had a great week so far. Monday's bank holiday meant that mortgage lenders had to account for an extra day of movement in the ...
Wed, Sep 6 2023, 4:49 PM
If you're at all tuned in to economic and financial news, you've probably heard the the phrase "data dependent" more than a few times recently. It re...
Tue, Sep 5 2023, 5:00 PM
Mortgage rates are noticeably higher to start the new week for most lenders although some lenders increased their costs nearly as much on Friday. Bet...
Thu, Aug 31 2023, 4:36 PM
Today's mortgage rates remain at levels that are much higher than most of the past few decades, but refreshingly lower than most of the past 3 weeks. ...
Wed, Aug 30 2023, 4:25 PM
In the space of just 2-3 short days, mortgage rates have moved from multi-decade highs to the lowest levels in 3 weeks. The catch is that the last 3 ...
Tue, Aug 29 2023, 3:34 PM
The role of economic data in determining mortgage rate momentum is hard to overstate these days and today provided another solid example. This mornin...
Mon, Aug 28 2023, 3:43 PM
Mortgage rates hit fresh multi-decade highs last week with many lenders hitting the mid-7% range earlier in the week for top tier conventional 30yr fi...
Fri, Aug 25 2023, 4:55 PM
Heading into the day, the market held out the possibility of heightened volatility surrounding a speech from Fed Chair Powell at the annual Jackson H...
Thu, Aug 24 2023, 4:19 PM
Wednesday proved to be one of the 3 best days for mortgage rates in months. The catch? Those "great" days are most likely to be seen in the wake of a...
Wed, Aug 23 2023, 5:00 PM
Mortgage rates dropped at the fastest pace in weeks today, but that isn't saying much in and of itself considering rates have only moved lower 3 times...
Tue, Aug 22 2023, 4:43 PM
When it seems that we've only known pain in the mortgage rate world recently, the absence of pain is a welcome relief. Such was the case today with t...
Mon, Aug 21 2023, 3:42 PM
Interest rates are based on trading levels in the bond market. Bond traders began their day looking at significantly weaker levels (i.e. higher yield...
Fri, Aug 18 2023, 4:28 PM
At this point "high rates" are old news. We were already close to hitting the highest levels in more than 20 years last week, so it wasn't a huge surp...
Thu, Aug 17 2023, 3:06 PM
Readers of financial news outside the mortgage industry are accustomed to getting their mortgage rate updates on a weekly basis. This has only recent...
Wed, Aug 16 2023, 4:40 PM
If you could time travel back to October 20th, 2022, you'd find mortgage rates that are just a hair higher than today's at most lenders, but the diffe...
Tue, Aug 15 2023, 3:37 PM
Have you heard the one about higher mortgage rates? It's not a joke, sadly. It's just a thing that keeps happening. The week began with the average...
Mon, Aug 14 2023, 3:16 PM
We've had to use words like "effectively" or "nearly" in the past few weeks to refer to mortgage rates' proximity to the highest levels since November...
Fri, Aug 11 2023, 7:19 PM
This was supposed to be the week where a key inflation report would cast a vote on the fate of interest rate momentum. The vote was ostensibly friendl...
Thu, Aug 10 2023, 5:39 PM
OK, it may be a bit of stretch to consider today's jump a "surge" as it wasn't much bigger than some of the other increases seen in the past few weeks...
Wed, Aug 9 2023, 4:57 PM
Mortgage rates continued to move in a fairly narrow, sideways range on Wednesday--a trend that is very much in line with expectations from last Friday...
Tue, Aug 8 2023, 4:54 PM
Flash back to last Friday. The big jobs report came out and although it wasn't too far from forecasts, it was enough for the bond market to rally at ...
Mon, Aug 7 2023, 3:21 PM
Mortgage rates are starting out the new week at modestly higher levels compared to last Friday afternoon. The average change is very small. Many bor...
Fri, Aug 4 2023, 5:23 PM
In discussing mortgage rates near 23-year highs yesterday, we asked if there was any hope for relief and concluded that the only question was one of t...
Thu, Aug 3 2023, 4:19 PM
Interest rates of all types have been under immense pressure since the beginning of 2022. This resulted in the the highest mortgage rates in more tha...
Wed, Aug 2 2023, 4:27 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher again today as the underlying bond market digested stronger economic data and details of the U.S. Treasury's increased bor...
Tue, Aug 1 2023, 5:52 PM
For all intents and purposes, the average 30yr fixed rate at the average lender is as high as it's been since November 2022. The number itself as far...
Mon, Jul 31 2023, 3:54 PM
As the new week begins, mortgage rates are almost perfectly in line with those seen on Friday afternoon. Putting that in context, last Thursday and F...
Thu, Jul 27 2023, 4:17 PM
The Fed hiked its policy rate yesterday and now today, mortgage rates jumped quite a bit higher. While there are already headlines drawing a connecti...
Wed, Jul 26 2023, 4:41 PM
As we discussed yesterday, it was entirely possible that today would bring a rate hike from the Fed that coincided with mortgage rates moving LOWER. ...
Tue, Jul 25 2023, 4:37 PM
Mortgage rates moved moderately higher for the average lender at some point over the past 2 days. Some lenders bumped rates yesterday afternoon and t...
Mon, Jul 24 2023, 5:05 PM
It was a fairly uneventful day for mortgage rates for the average lender--at least until the very end of the business day. Mortgage lenders prefer to...
Fri, Jul 21 2023, 4:09 PM
After rising somewhat sharply yesterday, mortgage rates managed to find their footing on Friday's market session. Bonds typically face more volatilit...
Thu, Jul 20 2023, 5:02 PM
Some of today's news says mortgage rates are much lower than last week. And here I am telling you they're higher. Who should you believe? Easy one! ...
Wed, Jul 19 2023, 5:24 PM
Mortgage rates may have spiked to the highest levels in roughly 8 months two weeks ago, but they fully recovered as of last Thursday. Since then, ver...
Mon, Jul 17 2023, 4:27 PM
Mortgage rates jumped a bit higher last Friday after dropping triumphantly during the first four days of the week. That bounce may have cast some dou...
Fri, Jul 14 2023, 3:51 PM
Mortgage rates spiked abruptly last week after several economic reports showed the economy doing better than expected. Now this week, key inflation da...
Thu, Jul 13 2023, 5:13 PM
Farther vs further... One is for distance and the other means "additional/additionally." The dictionary may disagree, but only because too many of y...
Wed, Jul 12 2023, 3:47 PM
Mortgage rates had been moving higher fairly rapidly over the past 2 weeks with the average lender easily into the 7% range for a top tier conventiona...
Tue, Jul 11 2023, 3:47 PM
While experts might be able to debate the underlying causes, they can all agree that inflation is the key reason that rates skyrocketed at the fastest...
Mon, Jul 10 2023, 4:10 PM
The most important thing to know about mortgage rates so far this week is that they lived through last week. Living through last week means rates rea...
Fri, Jul 7 2023, 6:10 PM
Until a few weeks ago, it looked like we might have seen the last of 7% mortgage rates, but the last 2 weeks have been brutal. The culprit has been a ...
Thu, Jul 6 2023, 4:51 PM
It seems like just last week (because it was) we were commenting on the extreme LACK of volatility in the mortgage rate landscape. Starting last Thur...
Wed, Jul 5 2023, 3:59 PM
While the mainstream mortgage rate indices continue operating in the mid-to-upper 6% range, actual rates are moving higher into the 7% range by the ti...
Thu, Jun 29 2023, 4:50 PM
Despite other indices showing the average 30yr fixed rate in the 6.7 range, the actual average (after accounting for points) is once again over 7%. W...
Wed, Jun 28 2023, 4:25 PM
The bond market is waiting for bigger news on inflation and the economy, and traders aren't pretending otherwise. Why does that matter? Traders dete...
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