Mortgage Rates Little Changed at Lowest Levels Since March

You'd have to go back to March 28th to see the average mortgage lender offering a lower rate on a top tier, conventional 30yr fixed scenario than they're offering today.  The same was technically true yesterday and today's rates were just a hair lower. That said, some lenders have done things d

Mortgage Rates Drop Sharply After Inflation Data (But Bounce a Bit After The Fed Announcement)

It was an incredibly high consequence day for the bond market and, thus, mortgage rates due to the confluence of two extremely important events. The first event was the monthly release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is one of the two economic reports with the far more power to influence in

Mortgage Rates Barely Budge For 3rd Straight Day, But That Should Change Tomorrow

Today's mortgage rates were fairly close to yesterday's at the average lender for the 3rd business day in a row.  Friday was the last day with any substantial movement when rates spiked following the upbeat jobs report.  Since then, the average lender has only moved by 0.01% on each of the

Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher to Start Pivotal Week

There's been a noticeable uptick in mortgage rate volatility over the past two weeks with a quick spike at the end of May, a nice drop in early June and then another spike last Friday following the jobs report.  Of course everything's relative, so in objective terms, it was roughly a 0.30% roun