Mortgage Rates Drop Again, Sinking to Lowest Level in a Month

Weekly Freddy Mac Average

Every Thursday, Freddy Mac, a government-contaminated buyer of hostage loans, publishes a weekly average of 30-year mortgage rates. In today’s reading, 4 basis points have been reduced to 6.85%. Last September, the average drowned up to 6.08%. But in October 2023, the average of Freddy Mac saw a historic growth, which increased to 7.79%at the peak of 23 years.

Freddy MAC’s average is different from reporting for 30 years rates because Freddy Calculates Mac Weekly Average that mixes five recent days of rates. Conversely, our Investopedia is a 30-year-old average a daily reading, which offers more accurate and timely indicators of rate movement. In addition, the criteria for involved loans (eg, inclusion of the amount of down payment, credit score, discount points) differ among the functioning of Freddy Mac and our own.

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What is the reason for increasing or falling mortgage rates?

Horticulture rates are determined by a complex interaction of comprehensive economic and industry factors, such as:

• Bond market level and direction, especially 10-year-old treasury yields
• The current monetary policy of the Federal Reserve, especially it is related to the purchase and funding supported by the government.
• Competition between mortgage lenders and debt types

Because any of these numbers can cause ups and downs together, usually it is difficult to characterize changes in one factor.

Macroeconomic factors kept the hostage market relatively low for most time of 2021. In particular, the Federal Reserve was buying billions of dollars bonds in response to the economic pressures of the epidemic. This bond purchasing policy is a major impressive of mortgage rates.

But starting from November 2021, Fed started tapping down his bond shopping every month in March 2022 until Net Zero reached.

At that time and between July 2023, Fed aggressively increased the federal amount of money to fight high inflation for decades. While the Fed Fund rates can affect the mortgage rates, it does not do so directly. In fact, Fed Fund rates and mortgage rates can proceed in opposite directions.

But in view of the historical speed and magnitude of the fed 2022 and 2023, the benchmark rate in 16 months has increased by 5.25 percent points – even the indirect impact of the Fed Fund rate has resulted in a dramatic impact on the mortgage rates in the last two years.

Fed maintained the rate of Federal Funds at its peak for about 14 months starting in July 2023. But in September, the Central Bank announced the first rate cut of 0.50 percentage points, and then followed it with a quarter-point cut in November and December.

For its third meeting of 2025, however, Fed opted to keep the rates stable – and it is possible that the central bank may not cut another rate for months. At the March 19 meeting, Fed released its quarterly rate forecast, showing that at that time, the average expectation of central bankers for the rest of the year was just two quarter-bindu rate cuts. With five and rate-setting meetings set this year, it means that we can see higher rate -old announcements in 2025.

How do we track mortgage rates

The above cited national and state average has been provided as has been done through Zillow Mortgage API, which consider an applicant credit score loan-from (LTV) ratio in 80% (ie, at least 20% down payment) and 680-739 range. The resulting rates indicate what borrowers should expect when receiving quotes from lenders based on their ability, which may vary from advertised teaser rates. © Zillow, Inc., 2025. Use zillow is subject to terms of use.