Mortgage Rates Start Higher, But Recover in Afternoon

Mortgage rates are based on trading levels in the bond market and bond market activity has been extremely slow, as is normally the case during the Christmas holiday week.  The side effect of the slow activity is the risk of more random volatility.  In other words, bonds (and thus rates) ca

Mortgage Rates Higher to Start Holiday-Shortened Week

Holidays have inconsistent impacts on mortgage rates because holiday's have inconsistent impacts on the bond market (and rates are dictated by the bond market). Bond traders (the people buying and selling the bonds that ultimately determine mortgage rates) are people too.  They take vacations,

Mortgage Rates Recover Some of The Lost Ground

The week's big story is still the big jump in rates that took place after Wednesday's Fed announcement.  And while rates remain noticeably elevated on the week due to that jump, they're set to end the week at slightly less elevated levels. Credit this morning's inflation data for that developme

If You're Struggling to Understand This Week's Mortgage Rate Spike, This is For You

We received some anonymous feedback regarding recent rate commentary that serves as a good reminder that not everyone may be picking up what we're putting down, or worse yet, picking up things that we never put down in the first place.   We spend a lot of time talking about how the bond ma