mortgage rate

British

noun

the level of interest charged by building societies and banks on house-purchase loans

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From The Wall Street Journal

The Google search interest about selling homes comes as the average 30-year mortgage rate decreased to 5.98% this week, down from 6.76% a year ago.

From MarketWatch

With the benchmark 10-year Treasury under 4%—which has pulled the 30-year fixed mortgage rate under 6% for the first time since 2022—that leaves little real return, with the personal consumption deflator, the Federal Reserve’s main inflation gauge, running at a 2.9% year-over-year rate.

From Barron's

Freddie Mac reported the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate at 5.98% this past week.

From Barron's

Home Construction exchange-traded fund was down 0.4% shortly after the mortgage rate reading was released.

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