December 10, 2025. That's the date when the final Federal Reserve meeting will conclude its final 2025 meeting and, with it, a now widely anticipated reduction to the federal funds rate. A rate drop ...

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The Federal Reserve issued an interest rate cut of 25 basis points in September 2025. Then another in the same increment in October and a third one by an identical amount in December. And mortgage ...

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances, $806,500 or less, decreased to 6.39% from 6.49% The adjustable-rate mortgage share of activity ...

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Mortgage rates are finally falling, and just saw their biggest weekly drop in the past year. The average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in the past week was 6.35%, according to ...