{"id":3477,"date":"2026-04-23T19:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-hold-steady-for-most-lenders\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:56:20","slug":"mortgage-rates-hold-steady-for-most-lenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-hold-steady-for-most-lenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Hold Steady For Most Lenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thursday saw a continuation of the recent trend of very low volatility for mortgage rates. The average lender&#8217;s top-tier 30yr fixed rates were perfectly unchanged from yesterday and in the same narrow range as the past 7 business days (6.29-6.33%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the uneventful outcome, there was some underlying market volatility mid-day following a series of war-related headlines. The news involved the status of Iran&#8217;s negotiation team as well as potential indications of air strikes in Iran. The market reacted swiftly (a resumption of hostilities would push rates\/oil higher and stocks lower), but several of the headlines were subsequently retracted\/clarified and the overall market reaction ended up being relatively small.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of mortgage lenders responded to the market movement and increased rates. Bonds (which dictate rates) remain a bit worse off compared to this morning, so if there&#8217;s not a bond market rebound by tomorrow morning, other lenders could make similar adjustments.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday saw a continuation of the recent trend of very low volatility for mortgage rates. The average lender&#8217;s top-tier 30yr fixed rates were perfectly unchanged from yesterday and in the same narrow range as the past 7 business days (6.29-6.33%).\u00a0 Despite the uneventful outcome, there was some underlying market volatility mid-day following a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[383,2612,153,154,769],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-hold","tag-lenders","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-steady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","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=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}