Posted To: Mortgage Rate Watch
Mortgage rates picked up the pace of weakness today, moving higher at their quickest pace of the year. That’s the bad news. The good news is that today is still the 6th best day for rates in the past 21 months and many borrowers will only experience this spike in the form of slightly higher closing costs as opposed to a rise in rates themselves. Conforming 30yr fixed rates of 3.625% remain widely available for top tier scenarios. Up until yesterday, 3.5% was getting very close in terms of prevalence, but today’s weakness changed that. It’s still available, but in many cases, there could be upfront costs whereas there were none yesterday. The move in mortgage rates is merely a small reflection of a much broader phenomenon in global financial markets. All types of asset classes have been moving…(read more)




