Mortgage Rates Near Highest Levels in More Than a Month

Mortgage rates continued their frustrating and somewhat perplexing move higher today, thus bringing the average lender close to the highest levels since the end of May.  Rising rates are always frustrating for those the housing/mortgage markets and prospective borrowers, but an ebb and flow is

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Mortgage Rates Steady to Slightly Lower

Mortgage rates rose at the fastest pace in 2 weeks yesterday, but that wasn't a very tall order considering an almost perfect absence of movement leading up to that.  Now today, a good amount of that small amount of damage has been undone. Bonds responded favorably to this morning's economic da

Mortgage Rates Moving Up a Bit

After operating in an exceptionally narrow range since the beginning of last week, mortgage rates finally started doing something a bit different today.  Unfortunately, the differences result in a more noticeably move higher. Rates often respond to major economic data and other important develo