{"id":3687,"date":"2026-05-12T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-match-highest-level-since-march\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:26:25","slug":"mortgage-rates-match-highest-level-since-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-match-highest-level-since-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Match Highest Level Since March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When the Iran war was in its initial escalation phase, the initial surge in markets took the top-tier 30yr fixed rate to 6.64% for the average lender by March 27th. Rates moved more than 0.30% lower by mid April as peace prospect improved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The third phase of rate movement began in late April and has generally involved a jump back up toward 6.5% with the first 2 days of the present week accounting for a move from 6.42% to 6.56%. That matches the highest level seen since March 27th.<\/p>\n<p>Bonds yields (which underlie rates) have followed longer-term oil prices to their highest recent levels as Trump said the U.S. is not in a hurry to end the war.\u00a0<\/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>When the Iran war was in its initial escalation phase, the initial surge in markets took the top-tier 30yr fixed rate to 6.64% for the average lender by March 27th. Rates moved more than 0.30% lower by mid April as peace prospect improved.\u00a0 The third phase of rate movement began in late April and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[310,311,349,367,153,154],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-highest","tag-level","tag-march","tag-match","tag-mortgage","tag-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","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=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}