{"id":468150,"date":"2026-02-14T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468150\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:58:09","slug":"mortgage-rates-oh-so-close-to-3-year-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468150\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Oh So Close to 3 Year Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the administration announced that Fannie and Freddie would be buying mortgage-backed securities in early January, rates fell sharply to the lowest levels in more than 3 years. After a moderate rebound the following week, we&#8217;ve been holding mostly steady in a range that was 0.1-0.2 above those long-term lows.<\/p>\n<p>The past two days have brought enough improvement that the average lender is once again at levels that are close enough to the long-term lows seen on January 9th and 12th.<\/p>\n<p>What accounts for the strength? In today&#8217;s case, incremental gains were driven by a tame reading in January&#8217;s Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key inflation report. In general, lower inflation coincides with lower rates, and today&#8217;s reading was slightly lower than expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the administration announced that Fannie and Freddie would be buying mortgage-backed securities in early January, rates fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-468150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}