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Savita is getting married! The New Year is starting out favorably for mortgage interest rates. Thursday, 1/8/2026, Trump directed Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac to purchase $200 Billion of their own Mortgage Backed Securities, MBS, from the markets. This increase in

Mortgage rates fall, but not for the reason you are led to believe. Mortgage rates remain volatile but are slowly heading downwards. The Federal Reserve cut their target rate, the Fed Funds, for the third time this year on

Mortgage rates have held onto the lower rate environment for over 8 weeks now. That is two weeks longer than the 6-week run we had last year before mortgage rates went back up again. Hopefully we are at the

Hi Friends, The most recent Fed meeting on 9/17 didn’t surprise anyone with the Fed voting 11–1 to lower the federal funds target rate by 0.25%, bringing the range down to 4%–4.25%. This rate cut was already baked into