As of today, you’d have to go back to June 2020 to see higher mortgage rates. This is courtesy of an ongoing move in the bond market that has longer-term rates/yields surging higher at the quickest pace since the pandemic began. The broader bond market has actually been signalling this sort of move since late last summer, but it wasn’t an issue for mortgage rates for a variety of reasons. Now that the mortgage market has mostly exhausted its protective cushion against broader bond market volatility, when the broader bond market has a bad day, so do we.
It goes without saying that today was bad. Just look at the scoreboard, after all. But it also tried to be good. …(read more)Forward this article via email: Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.
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Highest Mortgage Rates Since June 2020
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