Posted To: Mortgage Rate Watch

Mortgages Rates spent 2 days at 4.0% in terms of rounded average "Best-Execution" rates (for detail on what that means, READ THIS POST from a few days ago). Today, that rounded average has returned to 3.875%. Although the underlying average isn't as low as it's ever been (3.88 vs 3.82), lenders tend to price loans in 1/8th (.125%) increments, meaning that 3.875% has been the lowest sustainable best-execution rate. In short, we're back to the promised land. The improvements came on the heels of today's FOMC Announcement (Federal Open Market Committee or simply "The Fed") which surprised some market participants with it's inclusion of new verbiage describing how long the Fed anticipated that it would keep its "Fed Funds Rate" at so-called "exceptionally low levels." Until today, this verbiage...(read more)