{"id":13539,"date":"2026-08-13T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:49:07","slug":"mortgage-rates-fall-to-6-67-freddie-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=13539","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage rates fall to 6.67%: Freddie Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/home-buying-couple-real-estate-agent.jpg\" \/>     <\/p>\n<p>Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather discusses home prices across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Mortgage rates fell for the first time in six weeks, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Mac&#8217;s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.67% from last week&#8217;s reading of 6.69%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The average rate on a 30-year loan was 6.58% a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Housing affordability has improved from a year ago, and recent increases in purchase and refinance applications suggest that borrowers continue to respond to even modest changes in mortgage rates,&#8221; said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac&#8217;s chief economist.<\/p>\n<p>The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.67% this week. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>A TALE OF TWO HOUSING MARKETS: LUXURY DEMAND SURGES AS AFFORDABILITY SQUEEZES STARTER-HOME BUYERS<\/p>\n<p>The average rate on a 15-year fixed mortgage fell to 5.96% from last week&#8217;s reading of 6.01%.<\/p>\n<p>#Mortgage #rates #fall #Freddie #Mac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather discusses home prices across the United States. Mortgage rates fell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[163,2552,2553,1952,2152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}