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3.72%: Mortgage Rates Fall Slightly to Open New Year

  • January 2nd 2020

by UrbanTurf Staff

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Long-term mortgage rates dropped slightly to open the new year. 

On Thursday, Freddie Mac reported 3.72 percent with an average 0.7 point as the average for a 30-year mortgage, down two basis points from last week. 

“The combination of improved economic data and market sentiment has led to stability in mortgage rates, which have hovered around 3.7 percent for nearly the last two months,” Freddie Mac's Sam Khater said in a release. “The stability is welcome news after the interest rate turbulence of the last year, which caused a slowdown in the housing market and other interest rate sensitive sectors. The low mortgage rate environment combined with the red-hot labor market is setting the stage for a continued rise in home sales and home prices.”

The UrbanTurf Mortgage Rate Disclaimer: The rates reported by Freddie Mac for 30-year mortgages are usually the best rates that the most qualified borrowers can get, so borrowers or those considering refinancing should not necessarily read this news and think that they can go out and get a loan with the quoted interest rate.

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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/372-mortgage-rates-fall-slightly-to-open-new-year/16286.

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