Mortgage Rates Moving Back Up

Between November 18th and December 6th, the average top tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate moved down from 7.08 to 6.68.  A 0.40% drop is rather significant, especially over the course of only 3 weeks.  Over the past 2 days, however, we've lost a quarter of that improvement. Today saw rates inc

Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher to Start New Week

Mortgage rates ended last week with an impressive drop to the lowest levels in more than a month and a half.  Today's rates ended up being the 2nd lowest over that time after the average lender moved to just slightly higher levels to start the new new week.  Top tier conventional 30yr fixe

Mortgage Rates Fall More Than Expected After Jobs Report

As of last week, rates were showing some signs of resilience, but they had to wait for the true test from this week's jobs report. Spoiler alert: they passed the test. It wasn't that the headline job count was particularly low, but it wasn't strong enough to argue against the fact that the labo

Mortgage Rates Little Changed Ahead of Big Jobs Report

It's been a remarkably calm week for mortgage rates, and a fairly decent one relative to several recent examples.  The average top tier 30yr fixed rate hovered just over 7% for most of November before breaking back into the high 6% range at the beginning of last week.  Since then, there ha