Mon, Apr 18 2016, 4:37 PM
Mortgage rates held steady today , leaving them just off the lowest levels in nearly three years. Market conditions were somewhat volatile surroundi...
Fri, Apr 15 2016, 4:23 PM
Mortgage rates improved slightly today , bringing them back toward the lowest levels in nearly three years. With all of the headlines to that effect ...
Thu, Apr 14 2016, 3:26 PM
It's that time again! Thursday rolls around and Freddie Mac releases its weekly mortgage rate survey. Most major media outlets subsequently craft he...
Wed, Apr 13 2016, 4:41 PM
Mortgage rates pulled up just slightly today after spending the past few days near 3-year lows. The weakness in rates is in line with our discus...
Tue, Apr 12 2016, 4:18 PM
Mortgage rates managed to hold steady today despite weakness in underlying bond markets. That means the rates being offered by lenders are subst...
Mon, Apr 11 2016, 3:20 PM
Mortgage rates were little changed today , keeping them in line with the lowest levels in nearly 3 years. Specifically, there have only been 2-3 ...
Fri, Apr 8 2016, 2:38 PM
Mortgage rates didn't necessarily improve today --some lenders were worse-off actually--but merely holding steady on average, rates are ending the...
Thu, Apr 7 2016, 4:46 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today , but not by much. Bond market levels typically dictate mortgage rate changes in fairly short order. Oftentimes...
Wed, Apr 6 2016, 4:10 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher today , pulling away from yesterday's long-term lows. Today's move wasn't extreme, by any means. It simply brings ra...
Tue, Apr 5 2016, 4:22 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today , continuing the recent trend of improvement. Investors are feeling more cautious after Fed Chair Janet Yellen e...
Mon, Apr 4 2016, 5:07 PM
Mortgage rates stayed steady today , beginning the first full week of April right in line with the lowest levels in roughly 6 weeks, depending on ...
Fri, Apr 1 2016, 5:18 PM
Mortgage rates continued lower today , despite a fairly strong showing in the Employment Situation report. The so-called 'jobs report' is the mos...
Thu, Mar 31 2016, 4:12 PM
Mortgage rates dropped again today, continuing a recent trend of improvement and bringing us to the best levels seen since March 1st. Market vol...
Wed, Mar 30 2016, 5:20 PM
Mortgage rates held steady in most cases today, though several lenders continued to improve. The average lender is at least down to 3.75% in t...
Tue, Mar 29 2016, 5:00 PM
Mortgage rates moved decisively lower today, following a speech from Fed Chair Janet Yellen. While she accomplished it in several ways, Yellen's...
Mon, Mar 28 2016, 5:22 PM
Mortgage rates were decidedly mixed today, depending on the lender. Some were in better shape compared to last Thursday (markets were closed on ...
Thu, Mar 24 2016, 4:18 PM
Mortgage rates reversed course today, heading back toward the higher levels seen earlier in the week. It's no mystery that rates have been payin...
Wed, Mar 23 2016, 5:27 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower today, recovering some of their losses from the first two days of the week. The average lender continues to ...
Tue, Mar 22 2016, 5:37 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher again today, casting a bigger shadow on last week's improvements. Rates haven't yet returned to the higher levels se...
Mon, Mar 21 2016, 5:39 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher to begin the new week as stocks and oil prices moved up from Friday afternoon's lows. Today's increases cast a shad...
Fri, Mar 18 2016, 3:56 PM
Mortgage rates didn't move much today, but of the lenders with noticeable differences versus yesterday, most were just slightly lower. That mean...
Thu, Mar 17 2016, 3:51 PM
Almost any major media outlet that covers financial news will have a story out today regarding this week's mortgage rates being higher than last week'...
Wed, Mar 16 2016, 5:19 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today, but the amount was not only smaller than underlying market movement suggested, it also varied widely from lend...
Tue, Mar 15 2016, 5:06 PM
Mortgage rates were essentially unchange d today, despite implied weakness in underlying bond markets. In other words, rates should have move...
Mon, Mar 14 2016, 4:20 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower today, for the second time in March. Unfortunately, the improvement did little to erase the recent weakness, ...
Fri, Mar 11 2016, 5:14 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly higher again today, pushing farther into the highest territory since late January. Today's move wasn't that big, in a...
Thu, Mar 10 2016, 5:26 PM
Mortgage rates continued higher today, making it back to levels last seen in late January. Today's key event was a policy announcement from the Eur...
Wed, Mar 9 2016, 4:43 PM
Mortgage rates bounced higher today, moving all the way back to the highest levels since early February. While that sounds quite dramatic, the same...
Tue, Mar 8 2016, 4:46 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today, regaining a good amount of the ground lost over the past few days. The average lender rate sheet is back in lin...
Mon, Mar 7 2016, 5:10 PM
Mortgage rates moved only slightly higher today on average. Some lenders were effectively unchanged from Friday, which is impressive considering t...
Fri, Mar 4 2016, 5:10 PM
Mortgage rates moved only moderately higher today after the Employment Situation report came out much stronger than expected. The all-important jo...
Thu, Mar 3 2016, 4:31 PM
Mortgage rates began the day slightly higher, on average, but managed to make it back in line with yesterday's levels by the afternoon. Some lend...
Wed, Mar 2 2016, 4:38 PM
Mortgage rates continued farther into to the highest levels since early February today. The current territory is important in the bigger pi...
Tue, Mar 1 2016, 5:03 PM
Mortgage rates moved quickly higher today, bringing them to levels not seen since early February. It continues to be the case that context is impor...
Mon, Feb 29 2016, 5:10 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly lower today, recovering only some of the weakness seen over the past several business days. Apart from last Friday, to...
Fri, Feb 26 2016, 5:55 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher again today--this time at a slightly quicker pace--bringing averages up to the highest levels in at least a week. That ...
Thu, Feb 25 2016, 4:39 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly higher today, and that leaves them much higher than the long-term lows seen 2 weeks ago. Of course "much" is a relativ...
Wed, Feb 24 2016, 4:30 PM
Mortgage rates generally held their ground today. In fact, rates were lower than yesterday's, on average, but quite a few lenders raised rates from...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 4:22 PM
Mortgage rates experienced some volatility today, but ended up in slightly stronger territory on average. At first, rates were higher, as underlyin...
Mon, Feb 22 2016, 5:27 PM
Mortgage rates maintained recent sideways momentum today, holding inside a narrow range established last week. This range is particularly interesti...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 4:17 PM
Mortgage rates improved slightly today, on average, despite modest weakness in underlying bond markets. We discussed this possibility yesterday in ...
Thu, Feb 18 2016, 8:09 PM
Mortgage rates finally held their ground today, earning back some of the ground lost over the past 3 days. While a substantial gap remains between ...
Wed, Feb 17 2016, 4:44 PM
Mortgage rates were just a bit higher in most cases today, although some lenders were effectively unchanged from yesterday. If you happened to stop...
Tue, Feb 16 2016, 3:59 PM
Mortgage rates continued slightly higher today, further distancing themselves from last week's 1-yr lows. The average lender continues to quote c...
Fri, Feb 12 2016, 3:47 PM
Mortgage rates rose rapidly today, relative to their average intraday movement potential. Things have been far from average, of course, and so it ...
Thu, Feb 11 2016, 5:22 PM
Mortgage rates were widely available at 3.5 percent for much of the day today. At any other time from the middle of 2013 through the end of 2015, ...
Wed, Feb 10 2016, 5:28 PM
Mortgage rates barely budged today, but did manage to gain just a bit of ground. That means another 1-year low, technically, although many lenders...
Tue, Feb 9 2016, 4:13 PM
Mortgage rates kept moving lower today as global financial markets remain in distress. This time around, the improvement wasn't as much about the b...
Mon, Feb 8 2016, 5:08 PM
Mortgage rates dropped significantly today, officially hitting the lowest levels in almost exactly 1 year. For most lenders, that means a conventio...
Fri, Feb 5 2016, 4:49 PM
Mortgage rates were mostly unchanged today, though a few lenders were microscopically higher in cost . That's an uncommon result for the day of th...