Mortgage Rates Have Already Risen From All-Time Lows (But Only Slightly)

It’s Thursday, and thus time once again for Freddie Mac’s weekly mortgage rate survey.  This is the longest-running and most widely-cited snapshot of mortgage rates  in the US, but it frequently results in misinformation for mortgage shoppers.  The survey does an accurate job of capturing the rates available early in any given week, but it doesn’t take the entire week into consideration.  As such, actual rates can be very different by the time the survey is published (and news organizations are citing it as a breaking story).
This is most noticeable when rates make huge moves late in any given week or simply when rates are near all-time lows. …(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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