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Mortgage rates hit 7.58%, approaching 3-year high (opens the original)
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Mortgage rates closed in on 7.6% Tuesday as Treasury yields continued to move higher. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate hit 7.58% on Tuesday, per Mortgage News Daily. That's up 8 basis points from Monday, and is the highest level since November 2023. The 10-year Treasury yield (^TNX), which mortgage rates closely track, was up around 4 basis points to 5.28% as of midday. Read more: How soaring Treasury yields could hit your finances Rates remain some distance from late 2023's peak aro
Mortgage rates fell slightly after the Fed hiked rates: Mortgage and refinance interest rates today, Thursday, September 17, 2026 (opens the original)
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Some offers on this page are from advertisers who pay us, which may affect which products we write about, but not our recommendations. See our Advertiser Disclosure. Mortgage rates are hovering around 7.2% following the Federal Reserve's first interest rate hike in three years. The latest move is a bit of relief following a bruising few weeks in which they reached as high as 7.24%, the highest levels since early 2025, according to Mortgage News Daily. The Fed doesn't directly control mortgage ra
Home contract signings drop 4.7% from last year amid higher mortgage rates (opens the original)
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Home contract signings improved slightly from July to August but slumped from a year ago, a sign of buyers' sensitivity to higher mortgage rates. Pending home sales, a measure of homes going under contract, climbed 0.3% in August from a month earlier but are down 4.7% from last year, according to National Association of Realtors data. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected a more modest 3.9% year-over-year drop. "Buyers steadily entered into contracts in August even though mortgage rates incr
Why your cell phone bill is getting so expensive — and how that helped convince the Fed to raise rates (opens the original)
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Millions of Americans recently received unwelcome news about their cell phone bills. In late June, T-Mobile (TMUS) said it was retiring over 1,000 older plans, shifting customers to newer offerings at an added cost of as much as $6 per line per month. And starting in August, AT&T (T) hiked rates on some of its older plans by $10 to $20 and increased a monthly per-line fee by $1. The changes contributed to a steep 5.9% jump in Americans' wireless bills from July to August alone, according to Cons
Pulte seeks easier mortgage insurance cancellation as housing affordability deteriorates (opens the original)
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As high mortgage rates and elevated home prices continue to crimp housing affordability, Federal Housing Finance Agency's Bill Pulte is seeking cuts to a common "hidden cost" of homeownership. Targeting private mortgage insurance, which around 800,000 borrowers used to buy homes last year, Pulte is aligning policies between mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to allow loan servicers to proactively call borrowers when they're eligible to drop their mortgage insurance. Previously, only Fred
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