These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates rose this week as investors weighed the GOP tax bill, a credit ...

Mortgage rates jumped higher on Monday following Moody's downgrade of U.S. debt, adding to the headwinds facing homebuyers.

Average mortgage refinance rates have been volleying between 6.5% and 7% as fears of both higher inflation and an economic slowdown play tug-of-war with financial markets. Overall, rates are too high ...

US home sales have hit a 15-year low in April, mirroring trends from 2009, as mortgage rates hover near 7%. Existing home sales dipped 0.5% from March, with prices reaching a record $414,000 ...

Mortgage rates ultimately managed to hold steady on Tuesday despite some underlying market volatility. Rates change day to day (and sometimes intraday) based on movement in the bond market, and ...

Home prices remain near record highs ... Home buying activity tends to pick up when mortgage rates drift below 6.7%, Nadia Evangelou, senior economist and director of real estate research at ...

Our Nerdy take on mortgage rate trends May 21, 2025: Mortgage rates keep hanging around near the 7% level, and that's too high for a lot of would-be buyers who are waiting for rate relief.

After hitting a peak of 7.04% in January 2025 ... “[M]any economists expect mortgage rates will stay near their current levels for some time, possibly for most of 2025,” Cook says.

The National Association of Realtors says existing home sales fell half-a-percent last month. That’s the slowest April pace since 2009, according to the new data. Home sales were 100,000 below ...

With rates still hovering near 7%, the city you buy in could make or break your mortgage affordability. In some markets, the majority of buyers are locking in sub-7% loans.