{"id":13912,"date":"2026-02-27T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=13912"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:32:57","slug":"mortgage-rates-fall-to-lowest-level-since-2022","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/news\/mortgage-rates-fall-to-lowest-level-since-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Fall to Lowest Level Since 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Hopes that the domestic moving industry in the United States will see a better Spring and Summer season may have improved as mortgage rates fell to their lowest level since September 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/02\/26\/nx-s1-5726386\/home-mortgage-rates-below-6\">NPR<\/a>&nbsp;reported that the average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage hit 5.98% last week, according to a new report from the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (Freddie Mac),&nbsp;falling below what real estate experts say is the psychological barrier of 6%. At their recent peak, the average rate was around 7.8% in October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although rates are not dramatically less expensive than a week ago, a housing expert for the financial advice website NerdWallet, Kate Wood, said the drop below 6% could prompt Americans&nbsp;who&nbsp;have hung onto a lower mortgage rate to finally move home. &#8220;\u200aThere are people who are certainly going to reach that breaking point of &#8216;I love my mortgage rate, but my goodness, I cannot stand this house anymore,'&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes that the domestic moving industry in the United States will see a better Spring and Summer season may have improved as mortgage rates fell to their lowest level since September 2022. NPR&nbsp;reported that the average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage hit 5.98% last week, according to a new report from the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"news-category":[31],"class_list":["post-13912","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13920,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13912\/revisions\/13920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}