Mortgage rates hold steady, hover near 7%
Mortgage rates ticked up this week, with the 30-year fixed rate averaging 6.90 percent, compared to 6.89 percent the previous week, according to Bankrate's latest lender survey.
Loan type
Current
4 weeks ago
One year ago
52-week average
52-week low
30-year
6.90%
6.88%
7.10%
6.82%
6.20%
15-year
6.09%
6.09%
6.47%
6.06%
5.40%
30-year jumbo
6.88%
6.90%
7.20%
6.86%
6.36%
The 30-year fixed mortgages in this week's survey had an average total of 0.34 discount and origination points. Discount points are a way to lower your mortgage rate, while origination points are fees lenders charge to create, review and process your loan.
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The national median family income for 2025 is $104,200, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the median price of an existing home sold in April 2025 was $414,000, according to the National Association of Realtors. Based on a 20 percent down payment and a 6.9 percent mortgage rate, the monthly payment of $2,181 amounts to 25 percent of the typical family's monthly income.
Mortgage rates didn't respond to the Federal Reserve's three consecutive cuts last year — a reminder that fixed mortgage rates are not set directly by the Fed but by investor appetite, particularly for 10-year Treasury bonds. When there's uncertainty in the market, investors buy Treasury bonds, which in turn drives yields — and, often, mortgage rates — downward.
President Donald Trump's tariff policies spurred a spasm of market swings that included 10-year Treasury yields briefly dropping below 4 percent. As of Wednesday afternoon, they stood at 4.4 percent.
'The new normal for now is mortgage rates in the high 6 percent range, which means that the relatively slow pace of home sales transactions during the spring is likely to push into summer,' says Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at Bright MLS, a listing service in the mid-Atlantic region.
Another factor is inflation, which remains persistently higher than the Fed's target of 2 percent. The Labor Department reported that inflation had edged up to 2.4 percent in May, an uptick, but still tame enough to relieve some of the pressure on mortgage rates.
Even with the volatility in markets, housing economists say mortgage rates are likely to move gradually rather than dramatically. 'Any time inflation shows signs of cooling, that's typically good for mortgage rates, and we saw that reflected in this week's numbers,' says Samir Dedhia, CEO of One Real Mortgage.
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Methodology
The Bankrate.com national survey of large lenders is conducted weekly. To conduct the National Average survey, Bankrate obtains rate information from the 10 largest banks and thrifts in 10 large U.S. markets. In the Bankrate.com national survey, our Market Analysis team gathers rates and/or yields on banking deposits, loans and mortgages. We've conducted this survey in the same manner for more than 30 years, and because it's consistently done the way it is, it gives an accurate national apples-to-apples comparison. Our rates differ from other national surveys, in particular Freddie Mac's weekly published rates. Each week Freddie Mac surveys lenders on the rates and points based on first-lien prime conventional conforming home purchase mortgages with a loan-to-value of 80 percent. 'Lenders surveyed each week are a mix of lender types — thrifts, credit unions, commercial banks and mortgage lending companies — is roughly proportional to the level of mortgage business that each type commands nationwide,' according to Freddie Mac.
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