Mortgage rates continue to carve out the unlikeliest of victories in 2020 with significant help from coronavirus. The epidemic has taken a year that was almost certain to start off with a steady move toward higher rates and turned it into one of the strongest starts on record. In fact, when it comes to the combination of ground covered and levels achieved, no other year has started off any better.
Other years have seen a similarly big drop in rates during Jan/Feb, but there aren’t many. Of those years, 2016 was the only one to remotely match the rates we’re currently seeing. Unless tragedy strikes the mortgage world by the end of this week, 2020’s late February rates will be roughly 0.25% lower than they were in 2016.
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