Freddie Mac
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- Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7
Government-sponsored enterprise whose weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey is the main rate benchmark in this timeline and which was directed to buy mortgage-backed securities.
- The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings
Publishes weekly mortgage-rate data showing the consumer borrowing-cost effects of shifts in Treasury yields and Fed expectations.
Freddie Mac across every timeline
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202616 entries
- Freddie Mac reports 30-year mortgage rate of 7.40 percent Financial
Freddie Mac reported that the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 7.40 percent as of October 8, 2026. The rate was 7.28 percent the prior week.
on The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings - Freddie Mac's weekly 30-year mortgage rate rises to 7.40 percent Report
Freddie Mac reported that its 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 7.40 percent on October 8, up from 7.28 percent a week earlier. Reuters reported that the reading was the highest since November 2023.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Freddie Mac's weekly 30-year mortgage rate rises to 7.28% Announcement
Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey put the 30-year fixed-rate average at 7.28 percent on October 1, up from 7.03 percent the week before. The Associated Press said that was the highest the average had been since November 22, 2023, when it reached 7.29 percent, and that it had not climbed this fast week to week since October 2022.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Freddie Mac reports 30-year mortgage rate at 7.28 percent Report
Freddie Mac released results from its Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The survey showed that the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate was 7.28 percent.
on The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings - Freddie Mac's weekly 30-year mortgage rate rises to 7.03% Report
Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey put the 30-year fixed-rate average at 7.03 percent, up from 6.95 percent a week earlier.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Freddie Mac reports 30-year mortgage rate of 7.03 percent Financial
Freddie Mac reported that the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 7.03 percent on September 24, 2026. The rate was 6.95 percent a week earlier, while the average 15-year fixed rate rose to 6.42 percent from 6.26 percent.
on The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings - The 30-year rate jumps 19 basis points to 6.95 percent in the week the Fed raised Report
Freddie Mac put the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.95 percent, up from 6.76 percent a week earlier and 6.26 percent a year before, the largest weekly rise of the year. The survey averages rates offered from the previous Thursday through Wednesday, so it covers the days running up to the Federal Reserve's September 16 decision rather than the response to it. Daily averages had already crossed 7 percent on September 10.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - The daily 30-year average crosses 7 percent, the first time since May 2025 Report
Mortgage News Daily's average for the 30-year fixed rate reached 7.07 percent, ten basis points above Wednesday and the first reading above 7 percent since May 2025, while Freddie Mac's weekly survey for the same day still read 6.76 percent. The 10-year Treasury yield rose again as oil prices surged; CNBC put the daily low for the year at 5.99 percent, reached the day before the Iran war began, and calculated that principal and interest on a US$430,000 home with 20 percent down had risen US$244 a month since the end of February.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - The 30-year rate reaches 6.76 percent, 78 basis points above February's low Report
Freddie Mac put the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.76 percent, up from 6.71 percent the week before and 6.35 percent a year earlier. The 15-year rate averaged 6.09 percent. The reading came a week before an FOMC meeting at which markets put meaningful odds on a rate increase.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Freddie Mac reports 30-year mortgage rate at 6.76 percent Financial
Freddie Mac reported that the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate was 6.76 percent on September 10, 2026. The rate was 6.71 percent a week earlier.
on The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings - A global bond sell-off takes the weekly rate to 6.71 percent, the highest since July 2025 Report
Freddie Mac's survey rate rose to 6.71 percent as the 10-year Treasury yield reached its highest level since October 2023. CNN tied the move to a global bond sell-off driven by the US conflict with Iran, higher energy costs and a national debt above US$40 trillion.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - FHFA and FHA implement new mortgage credit-score options Regulatory
The Federal Housing Finance Agency said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac updated their selling guides for VantageScore 4.0 and FICO Score 10T. The agencies began accepting Vantage-scored loans from approved lenders, while the Federal Housing Administration permitted the scores for FHA-insured underwriting.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Below 6 percent: the 30-year rate averages 5.98%, the lowest since September 2022 Report
Freddie Mac's weekly survey put the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 5.98 percent, the first reading below 6 percent since September 2022 and a psychological threshold for owners holding cheaper pandemic-era loans. Applications had risen 2.8 percent for the week ending February 13, but the gain was driven by refinancing while every other loan category fell.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - The White House claims the falling rate: refinance applications up 132 percent Announcement
A White House release credited the administration with mortgage rates at their lowest level since 2022, refinance applications up 132 percent and the Realtors' affordability index at its highest since March 2022. It listed the US$200 billion directive to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac among the actions taken to lower borrowing costs.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - The 50-year mortgage is dropped; the bond buying starts with $3 billion Response
Pulte told reporters the administration had other priorities when asked whether 50-year mortgages were still on the table, two months after proposing them. He said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had begun carrying out Trump's bond-buying order with an initial US$3 billion purchase, and said the two companies had more liquidity than they knew what to do with.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Trump orders $200 billion of mortgage-bond buying to push rates down Announcement
In a Truth Social post, Trump said he was instructing his representatives to buy US$200 billion in mortgage bonds, arguing that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had the cash because he had not sold them in his first term. The Federal Reserve has traditionally been the largest buyer of mortgage-backed securities.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7
20253 entries
- FHFA raises the 2026 conforming-loan limit to $832,750 Regulatory
The Federal Housing Finance Agency set the baseline 2026 conforming-loan limit for one-unit properties at $832,750 in most of the United States. The limit was $26,250 higher than the 2025 baseline and applies to mortgages eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Tariff news takes mortgage rates to the lowest level of 2025 Report
Mortgage rates reached their lowest level of 2025 as the 10-year Treasury yield fell sharply on tariff news, with selling in equities moving money into bonds. HousingWire's housing-market tracker had said the yield was stubbornly resistant and that it would take bad news to break through it.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Freddie Mac's 30-year mortgage rate rises above 7 percent Report
Freddie Mac's weekly survey put the average 30-year fixed rate above 7 percent, the first time since May 2024. Axios said mortgage rates move in lockstep with the 10-year Treasury yield, which had climbed in recent months, and that forecasters expected rates to stay above 6 percent for the rest of the year.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7