Rate Rumble: Mortgage Moves & Credit Scores

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• Mortgage rates could stay higher for longer as a result of the Iran war, even if the conflict ends immediately, because lasting damage to oil and gas markets and supply chains will keep inflation elevated.

  60% confidence

• The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is currently 6.3%, representing the midpoint of where it has been over the past couple of months.

  60% confidence

• Investors are currently not pricing in any Federal Reserve interest rate moves in 2026, whereas previously markets expected two or three cuts.

  60% confidence

• Higher mortgage rates following the Iran war kept buyers on the sidelines in March and April.

  60% confidence

• The war in Iran almost immediately pushed mortgage rates higher to around 6.5%, driven by inflation fears about higher oil and gas prices.

  60% confidence

• Federal Reserve rate decisions do not directly affect mortgage rates, but investors in both bond and mortgage markets are reading the same macroeconomic indicators.

  60% confidence

• Lower mortgage rates in the 5.5% range could have brought sidelined buyers back into the housing market.

  60% confidence

• In late February, before the war in Iran broke out, mortgage rates were around 6%, and there was real optimism rates could fall to 5.5% or the upper fives during the spring buying season.

  60% confidence

• Mortgage rates have trended downward over the past couple of weeks, declining from 6.5% to 6.3%.

  60% confidence

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