{"id":3017,"date":"2026-02-26T21:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/best-week-for-mortgage-rates-in-years\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:38:36","slug":"best-week-for-mortgage-rates-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/best-week-for-mortgage-rates-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Week For Mortgage Rates in Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Given that we have the somewhat unpopular job of reporting that today&#8217;s average top-tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate is 6.00 again, rather than the 5.99 seen earlier this week, we can at least find one glowingly positive development as a silver lining.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the silver lining is more than a consolation prize. It&#8217;s actually better news than another day at 5.99% would have been.\u00a0 First off, there&#8217;s no functional difference between 6.00 and 5.99 when it comes to our daily rate index. A vast majority (95%+) of borrowers would see the exact same rate quotes on either day.<\/p>\n<p>As such, it&#8217;s far better news that the daily average has been 5.995 over the past 4 days (2 days at 6.00 and 2 at 5.99). That&#8217;s easily the lowest weekly average in more than 3 years, and the stability means that more borrowers are able to hear that news and act accordingly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: if you happen to see separate news today regarding rates hitting 5.98%, that would be coverage of Freddie Mac&#8217;s weekly survey. You can use the chart below to explore long-term comparisons between our daily average, Freddie Mac, and MBA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article-chart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/charts\/embed\/mtg-rates-thirty-year-full\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that we have the somewhat unpopular job of reporting that today&#8217;s average top-tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate is 6.00 again, rather than the 5.99 seen earlier this week, we can at least find one glowingly positive development as a silver lining. In fact, the silver lining is more than a consolation prize. It&#8217;s actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,154,258,312],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-week","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}