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Mortgage Rates Edge Back Up to Early 2011 Levels

By Matthew Graham

Posted To: Mortgage Rate Watch

Mortgage rates moved back up today, leaving them right in line with the highest levels of the week. These also happen to be the highest levels since early 2011, but let’s not get bogged down in unfortunate details! Rates will definitely move lower at some point in the future. That’s the way economic cycles work–and they always work eventually. The big questions are twofold: how long will it take for fortunes to change and how high will rates go in the meantime? In terms of timing, we could be looking at anywhere from a few months to more than year before seeing a shift that’s big enough to get excited about. That said, there will still be pockets of positivity at times, even in a rising rate environment. Whatever the case may be, the higher rates go, the closer we’re getting to the end of…(read more)

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