With sticky inflation and rising bond yields, mortgage rates continue to move higher. The Mortgage Bankers Association, whose ...

Mortgage rates topped 7% this week, a key psychological threshold, in a sign of the US housing market’s unrelenting ...

The 30-year fixed rate mortgage topped 7% for the first time since last May, although late in the week, the 10-year Treasury ...

“Mortgage rates ticked up for the fifth consecutive week and crossed 7% for the first time since May of 2024,” says Sam ...

Let’s divide 49 years of data into two, using the 30-year fixed mortgage rate tracked by Freddie Mac. The benchmark rate fell ... When rates were down, the Consumer Price Index was rising 3% a year.

Freddie Mac's data ... about these dynamics, home prices typically rise faster than inflation, which is one reason they were excluded from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) calculation in 1983.