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Home Loan Rate Trends Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Amid Global Trade Disputes Modestly weaker consumer spending and manufacturing data, along with continued jitters around trade policy, caused interest rates to decline throughout the yield curve. While signals from the financial markets … Learn more Primary Mortgage Market Survey® by Freddie Mac May 16, 2019 30-Year […]

Home Loan Rate Trends Mortgage Rates Drop Slightly weaker inflation and labor economic data caused mortgage rates to dip this week. Moving into summer, we expect rates to be about a quarter to half a percentage point lower than where they were … Learn more Primary Mortgage Market Survey® by Freddie Mac May 2, 2019 […]

Home Loan Rate Trends Mortgage Rates Continue to Rise After dropping dramatically in late March, mortgage rates have modestly increased since then. While this week marks the third consecutive week of rises, purchase activity reached a nine-year high … Learn more Primary Mortgage Market Survey® by Freddie Mac Apr 18, 2019 30-Year FRM 15-Year FRM […]

Home Loan Rate Trends Mortgage Rates Remain Stable Purchase mortgage application demand saw the second highest weekly increase over the last year and thanks to a spike in refinancing activity, overall mortgage demand rose to the highest level since the fall of 2016 … Learn more Primary Mortgage Market Survey® by Freddie Mac Apr 4, […]

Home Loan Rate Trends Mortgage Rates See Biggest One-Week Drop in a Decade The Federal Reserve’s concern about the prospects for slowing economic growth caused investor jitters to drive down mortgage rates by the largest amount in over ten years. Despite negative outlooks by some … Learn more Primary Mortgage Market Survey® by Freddie Mac […]

Home Loan Rate Trends Mortgage Rates Move Lower Mortgage rates have dipped quite dramatically since the start of the year and house prices continue to moderate, which should help on the homebuyer affordability front. The combination of improving … Learn more Primary Mortgage Market Survey® by Freddie Mac Mar 21, 2019 30-Year FRM 15-Year FRM […]

Home Loan Rate Trends Mortgage Rates Drop, Making Homebuying Less Costly Mortgage rates declined decisively this week amid various market reports, a strong bond auction and further uncertainty around the Brexit deal, which all contributed to driving bond yields lower … Learn more Primary Mortgage Market Survey® by Freddie Mac Mar 14, 2019 30-Year FRM […]

Home Loan Rate Trends Downward Mortgage Rate Trend Ends While mortgage rates very modestly rose to 4.41 percent this week, they remain below year-ago levels for the fourth week in a row. In late 2018, mortgage rates rose over a full percentage point from … Learn more Primary Mortgage Market Survey® by Freddie Mac Mar […]