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| Mortgage Rates Were Flat All Week No Matter What Other News Suggests | ||
| 9/12/2025 2:20 PM | ||
| The underlying bond market (which dictates the rates offered by mortgage lenders) weakened moderately overnight. Weaker bonds equate to higher rates, all else equal. "Higher rates" is contrary to many media outlets" coverage this week, but there"s an important reason. Most news organizations that cover mortgage rates rely on Fred...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Move Back to Long-Term Lows | ||
| 9/11/2025 2:51 PM | ||
| Today"s inflation report (the Consumer Price Index or CPI) certainly had a chance to create volatility for rates, but things ended up staying fairly calm. There are multiple subheadings of data that the bond market cares about when it come to CPI. Most of them were in line with expectations, or close enough to avoid surprising investors. The...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Hold Steady With Help From Econ Data | ||
| 9/10/2025 3:02 PM | ||
| Wednesday brought the first of this week"s two key inflation reports. While the Producer Price Index (PPI) is the lesser of the two in terms of potential impact on rates, it came in far enough below expectations to make for a measurable improvement. The catch is that the improvement in question pertains to the underlying bond market. Before the da...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Finally Tick Slightly Higher | ||
| 9/9/2025 2:19 PM | ||
| It had to happen at some point. After spending 4 straight days of setting new 11-month lows, mortgage rates finally moved higher today, but the headline is much scarier than reality. In fact, many borrowers won"t see any detectable difference from yesterday"s latest levels as the average lender"s top tier 30yr fixed rates moved a mere 0.01% higher...Read More | ||
| Another 11-Month Low For Rates, But Just Barely | ||
| 9/8/2025 2:34 PM | ||
| To their credit, most mortgage lenders did an admirable job of aggressively pricing-in the bond market rally after last Friday"s jobs report. Many mortgage market pros repeat the phrase "stairs down, escalator up" when it comes to the pace at which lenders change rates. The idea is that lenders are quicker to raise rates than cut them, but this cle...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Plummet Back to Fall 2024 Levels | ||
| 9/5/2025 10:51 AM | ||
| It"s a well-known fact that the monthly jobs report is more capable of causing big reactions in rates than any other economic data. It happened last month in grand fashion, and it is happening again this morning. Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP), which is a count of new jobs created, came in at a mere 22k for August versus a median forecast of 75k. Th...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Hit Another 2025 Low Ahead of a Potentially Volatile Friday | ||
| 9/4/2025 2:22 PM | ||
| The jobs report is the most important scheduled event each month as far as interest rates are concerned. The last installment helped get the average 30yr fixed rate down from 6.75 to 6.50 because it came out much weaker than expected (in addition to revising the previous two months lower as well). The shift in the labor market outlook led the mark...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Officially Hit 11-Month Low | ||
| 9/3/2025 2:42 PM | ||
| October 3rd is a date that has come up many times in the past month of mortgage rate coverage. That"s because there"s been a veritable chasm between the rates on that day and every other day since then. Why? October 4th"s jobs report caused an uncommonly large rate spike with the 30yr fixed average moving from 6.26 to 6.53 in a single day. An...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher to Start September | ||
| 9/2/2025 2:57 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates are based on bonds and bonds can do funny things on the first and last trading days of any given month. One of the most common "funny things" involves a decent amount of market movement for no apparent reason. In truth, there are always reasons, but on the first/last trading day of the month, they aren"t the normal reasons (such as a...Read More | ||
| Rates End Week at Best Levels; Next Week Could be Huge | ||
| 8/29/2025 1:30 PM | ||
| It was a very slow and steady week for mortgage rates. On all 5 days, the average top tier 30yr fixed rate moved by 0.02% or less. This is a small enough change that the average borrower wouldn"t see any detectable difference in a loan quote from one day to the next. But due to most of the changes being toward lower rates, Thursday and Friday...Read More | ||